Top 100 Quotes About The Giver
#1. Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.
Miroslav Volf
#2. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
David Levithan
#6. Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver.
Charles F. Glassman
#7. The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
Said Nursi
#9. If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.
Tony Robbins
#11. Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
Ovid
#12. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Laura Huxley
#14. The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Thomas Jefferson
#15. We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet ...
Henry B. Eyring
#16. If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas)
"It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.
Lois Lowry
#17. Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#19. God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture ...
J.I. Packer
#20. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#21. Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself
Jeremy Griffith
#22. The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.
Lois Lowry
#23. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
John Piper
#24. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
Lois Lowry
#25. The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.
Jody Hedlund
#27. Job crafters are those who do what's expected (because it's required) and then find a way to add something new to their work. Something that delights. Something that benefits both the giver and the receiver.
David Sturt
#28. Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
Billy Graham
#29. The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
Seth Godin
#30. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
Sharon M. Draper
#31. There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
Kevin Focke
#33. I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Louis Kahn
#34. Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
Peter Kreeft
#35. APHETA (APHE'TA) n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.
Samuel Johnson
#36. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
Charles Stanley
#37. When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
Hamza Yusuf
#38. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#39. Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating.
Alex Rutherford
#40. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#41. God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.
Brenton Brown
#42. People LOVE giving bad news. They love it. This is because negative information GREATLY empowers the giver and makes them feel important.
Chris Hardwick
#43. When a person gives to another person it's not just the receiver who's blessed. It's the giver. On
Fredrik Backman
#44. Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
#45. One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#46. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
#47. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#48. I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
Lois Lowry
#49. Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.
Barbara W. Winder
#50. Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer
George Gordon Byron
#51. Surely I could give him
a sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Dodie Smith
#53. Why do you and I have to hold these memories?" "It gives us wisdom," The Giver replied.
Lois Lowry
#54. The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.
Lois Lowry
#55. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
#56. Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted
Allen Ginsberg
#57. I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Monica Ali
#58. we try so hard to avoid the rest of the year: how do we deal with the God of darkness as well as the Giver of light?
Joan D. Chittister
#59. Giving with love is more rewarding for the giver's heart and mind than the receiver
Debasish Mridha
#60. I am the mother of this child. I am the one who carries it in her body. I am the giver of its life. Yet I have almost nothing to say about its coming into the world.
Terry Brooks
#63. In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.
Brenton Thwaites
#65. Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
Deepak Chopra
#66. People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#67. Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.
Michael Beckwith
#68. 'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
Marco Beltrami
#69. You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts ...
LeCrae
#70. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
E. Stanley Jones
#71. You are not The Giver of My Heart's Desire." I took a deep breath and smiled. "You are my heart's desire.
Julianne Donaldson
#72. 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
#73. Gifts are not things that you earn or deserve they are a way for the giver to show their appreciation for you and Daren, you are a part of my family
Chelsea Fine
#74. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther
#75. No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.
Theodore Roosevelt
#76. To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.
Michael Foley
#77. Create in them a relentless reliance on you and your provisions of favor in all of life. Enable them to be enthralled by you as the giver of all things. Give them exuberant praise and thankfulness at the thought of your glorious name.
Tony Souder
#78. There is nothing virtuous about giving exclusively, especially in a relationship. If you are only the giver, then your relationships will be one-sided; there will be no energetic interplay that energizes you as a couple.
Annette Vaillancourt
#79. Giving Back is like chicken and dumplings for the giver's soul ... warm, familiar and filled with rich and nourishing content.
Valaida Fullwood
#80. For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.
Colleen Mariotti
#82. The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.
Philip Yancey
#83. Drugs rob every person, man, woman, and child of their beauty. Drugs turn people into animals who can only respond to instincts. Drugs are so powerful they eradicate the God in both the taker and the giver.
Sister Souljah
#84. A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas A Kempis
#85. Success honors the giver, and the taker is cheated by demise.
T.F. Hodge
#87. Call me The Giver," he told Jonas.
Lois Lowry
#88. Gratitude isn't a gift to the receiver, it's a gift to the giver.
Kim Holden
#89. Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
#90. People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
Lois Lowry
#91. James Russell Lowell wrote: It's not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of himself of his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
John Wooden
#92. When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#93. Perhaps the giver of the name had meant to trick Cheepi, the devil-god, into thinking him unloved and therefore leaving him alone.
Geraldine Brooks
#94. Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
A.B. Simpson
#95. The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
Roman Payne
#96. Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.
David Anthony Durham
#97. While the Giver archetype is celebrated in our culture, the Receiver is almost wholly unknown. The result? Busyness is a virtue. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#98. She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#100. Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
Robert Green Ingersoll
