Giver Quotes - Page 2

• The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

  Lois Lowry

  Mind, Going Away

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• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

  Basil King

  Love, Jobs, Fear

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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• Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

  George Washington Cable

  Cheerful, Lord, Knows

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, I. 5, 1779.

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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• The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Giving, Shows

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• Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

  Lois Lowry

  Taken, Reality, Dangerous World

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• He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

  Lois Lowry

  Gabriel

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Able, Would Be

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

  Ovid

  Made

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• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

  Lois Lowry

  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

  Lois Lowry

  Satisfied, Angry

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

  Mother Teresa

  Thoughtful, Giving, Cheerful

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• The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
  Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
  But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
  And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love Life, Rivers, Soul

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• The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wretchedness

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.319

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• If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.

  Price Pritchett

  Growth, Want, Feels

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• I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

  Lois Lowry

  Love, Book, Writing

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• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

  Lois Lowry

  Past, People, Haste

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is not a taker. God is a giver.

  Louie Giglio

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Now even the heavens
  are thankful that
  because of love
  I have become
  the giver of light.

  Rumi

  Light, Heaven

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• Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mean, Heart, Giving

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• You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.

  LeCrae

  Celebrate

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• In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

  Robert D. Hales

  Gratitude, Healing, Expression

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

  Kathryn Jean Lopez

  Beautiful, Humanity

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