Quotes About Giving

Blessings

"Greater gifts will begin to emerge from you that are natural for you to give, that you were meant to give, that were put inside of you before you came into this world—gifts the world needs, for it is not only individuals who are impoverished, it is all of humanity."

• The New Message for the Impoverished and Oppressed (April 18, 2008)

Directives

"It is important that you who come bearing gifts not only feel that you should give or that you must give but realize the extent to which you are given to."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 180

"If you want to know God, you need to feed people, take care of people, take care of nature, restore the natural world, offset the great damage that has been done, prepare humanity to face the Great Waves of Change, to face ecological decline, to face the loss of fundamental resources, prepare humanity to face the reality of Intervention from predatory races in the Universe who are here to take advantage of human weakness and ignorance. Take care of the person next door—whatever it is that Knowledge leads you to do at whatever level. There is no grandiosity here. There is no personal fame. There is no sainthood. Renounce these things. They do not represent a pure motive."

• What is Creation? (February 4, 2007)

Processes

"Knowledge will put you in the position to discover and to express your unique gifts and will give you the criteria upon which to determine who to be with in your life and how to participate with them."

• The New Message for Young People (August 18, 2008)

"That which is difficult in the world will bring to you your calling, reveal to you where you must give yourself and the service you must provide."

• New Year’s Message 2010 (December 27, 2009)

Short Quotes

"What are you willing to give to God?"

• Where Will You Place Your Faith? (June 28, 2008)

"Only those who know that they have come from their Ancient Home can give."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 179

"It is not you who does the giving. It is your Knowledge that does the giving through you."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 180

"So, you are not the giver. You are the medium of the giving. this is a very important difference."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 181

"Many people expect or demand devotion from others but are incapable of giving it themselves, for they wish to bargain with their affection."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 5, p. 52

"You were sent here to give. If you are giving, then your spirituality is expressing itself. If you are not giving, then you are frustrated and your spirituality is still in the realm of speculation."

• Relationships & Higher Purpose, chap. 13, p. 145

"This is where people tend to feel threatened and withdraw because they want to have everything but give very little of themselves. Even their giving is to make themselves richer.

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. 2, chap. 4, p. 43

"For what is the most powerful evidence of God in the world but the evidence of selfless giving, the caring for others even if they do not care for you, the caring of the earth even if the earth seems indifferent to your existence?"

• The Reconciliation (May 2, 2011)

Long Quotes

"You are here for a purpose.You went to great lengths to be here. You have something to give in being here. You cannot go beyond this world because you have not given what is essential for you to give here. Your giving contains your self-realization, and your Knowledge is your foundation."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 5, p. 54

"The beliefs and fascinations, obsessions and fantasies of humanity are not what move God. It is the deeper movement of the heart and the conscience. It is the act of selfless giving. It is the act of forgiveness and the desire to contribute beyond one’s own personal needs and preferences."

• The New God (Feb. 12, 2009)

"When you practice in meditation, you come to give yourself to it, and there is a response because your Teachers come to give themselves and that is the touch. That is where you touch each other. I give to you, you give to me and we share our mutual giving."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 15, p. 183

"The contradiction of living in this world is that it is a hiding place. People are afraid to give and afraid to receive because when you start giving and receiving, the whole idea of hiding begins to dissolve, and you realize that God has caught up with you already."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 9, p. 111

"How can you give Knowledge? Well, you cannot. It gives itself. Then, everywhere you go people will respond to you, even if you are not trying to give people anything. There is something in you now that is giving you to people. It is not you giving it. It is giving you."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 10, p. 120

"If you have failed to make your rendezvous, later in life, if you make this discovery, there is a second redemption. And that is to give to others—to share your wealth, to share your time and to share whatever you can in service to meeting real needs of both people and of nature around you. This is the second redemption. It is not as powerful and fulfilling as the first, but it is significant and will be effective. Those who have been driven through all of their life can find themselves at the end with the opportunity to give, to be benefactors—benefactors with wealth, if they have wealth; benefactors of time, if they have time; benefactors of care, if they have the strength to do this. So there is a second redemption."

• The Sacred Rendezvous (January 29, 2009)

"What can you give to others? Beyond feeding them and giving them shelter, if that is their need in the moment, your greatest gift is to encourage them to take the steps to Knowledge, for more than anything else, this will determine if they can face, prepare and respond to the great change that is coming to the world."

• Planetary Instability (March 14, 2011)

"The power and presence of Knowledge ... is God’s answer to a struggling humanity. It is the source of all true creation. It is the source of the desire to serve and to give, to produce and to create for the benefit of others as well as yourself. It is the source of all true and beneficial motivations."

• Planetary Instability (March 14, 2011)

The Messenger's Giving

"No one else can travel the journey that the Messenger has had to travel. Others will give important gifts where they are needed, and ultimately everyone is meant to do this, for that is part of each person’s purpose. Everyone will be a conduit for a greater Presence and Power. But there is only one Messenger, whose Message will alter the course of human understanding and speak of the great change that will change the course of human destiny and evolution."

• The Story of the Messenger (May 23, 2011)

See also

• Devotion
• Legacy
• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chaps. 15, 16