The Spirit of Generosity: :

 

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The Spirit of Generosity: :

Generosity as a practice stumped scientists for years; the fact that people will share their money, food, energy, and time, even when resources are scarce, seems to go against our basic human instinct for survival. Recently, however, research has begun to explain what many people understand in their hearts: Generosity is good for both the giver and the receiver.helping other is a leading in more ways then one. Let GOD use you and be a blessing to someone by giving your time. Your ear. Your hands, your resources , your talent. What ever you have or can do, Do it for every good and perfect gift come from above. And we must be good stewards over everything GOD has entrusted  as with. 

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

- Maya Angelou

Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love, or simply give a smile.

-Steve Goodier, motivational writer

Think of giving not as a duty, but as a privilege.

-John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

- Dalai Lama

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.

-Allan Lokos, meditation teacher

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

-Jonathan Sacks, 

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

-Alan Cohen, inspirational

 Scriptures on Giving

2 Corinthians 9:7 

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Luke 6:38 

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Acts 20:35 

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

2 Corinthians 9:6 

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Malachi 3:10 

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

Matthew 6:1-4 

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Proverbs 3:27 

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Khalil Gibran, poet and artist

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

- Simone We

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else's life forever.

- Margaret Cho

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

- Unknown