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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
Giver of life, the Holy God.
He that lends, gives.
So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.
Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended.
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
So while the book Giving Back serves as a moving tribute, "The Soul of Philanthropy" exhibit and its programs are meant to compel us toward a triumphant movement of conscious giving for social change.
Beneficent realization that he was a stranger no longer, that he belonged
Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.
The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.
Compensate Compassion
Philanthropy is my job.
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,
The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed
Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
A generous action is its own reward.
When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.
For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
Charity Purify your heart and makes you lion.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
The grace of existence is the power of giving.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.
Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philosopher, but just a human being, and my charities are the pleasantest expense I have on these journeys.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
Whom God blesses he gives assignment
Our receiving expands with our gratitude.
Sometimes the greatest kindness we could receive would be to have someone expect more from us than we do, because they see more clearly our divine heritage.
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
Gratitude is a species of justice.
Generosity is opens the windows of heavenly blessings.
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction - because it is a gift.
The gift of today enfold in grace.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
the king of kind hearts and polite fellows
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ ...
I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the lowly one, O God and Master, Lord of mercy, Ruler of all and All-powerful One, hearken to my prayer, and fulfill my entreaties in praise.
The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.
As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.
A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
I can only thank, as I have within myself many times through the years, this unknown benefactor. She was the one who gave me the last piece of encouragement, a thief's good-luck sign.
For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.
A poor person feeding another poor! And this is the ultimate generosity!
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Who are you?
Your angel. Vengeance.
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
My existence is enough gift of grace.
Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night.
The power of giving is beyond measure.
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Giving is the gateway to heavenly blessings.
A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ...
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.
O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!
Forget favors given; remember those received.
Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.
The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.
To whom much has been given, much is required.
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
reward for the righteous.
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity