Quotes about Giver

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. Votes: 6

Love the giver more than the gift. Votes: 4

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. Votes: 4

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Votes: 4

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. Votes: 4

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver. Votes: 4

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. Votes: 4

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. Votes: 4

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Votes: 4

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! Votes: 4

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. Votes: 4

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Votes: 4

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Votes: 4

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Votes: 4

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts. Votes: 3

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver Votes: 3

Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give. Votes: 3

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings. Votes: 3

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors. Votes: 3

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver. Votes: 3

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel. Votes: 3

Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper. Votes: 3

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver. Votes: 3

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! Votes: 3

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? Votes: 3

God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry. Votes: 3

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Votes: 3

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver. Votes: 3

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. Votes: 3

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity. Votes: 3

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. Votes: 3

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids. Votes: 3

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him. Votes: 3

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. Votes: 3

When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

'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.' Votes: 3

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years. Votes: 3

People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish. Votes: 3

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean. Votes: 3

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. Votes: 3

The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift. Votes: 3

... it is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm basically a gift-giver. Votes: 2

I'm not a very good advice-giver. Votes: 2

The gift without the giver is rare. Votes: 2

We like the gift when we the giver prize. Votes: 2

I love to give. I've been a giver all my life. Votes: 2

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. Votes: 2

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious. Votes: 2

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. Votes: 2

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. Votes: 2

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. Votes: 2

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver. Votes: 2

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Votes: 2

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Votes: 2

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. Votes: 2

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. Votes: 2

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself. Votes: 2

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do. Votes: 2

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. Votes: 2

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. Votes: 2

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. Votes: 2

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Votes: 2

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

True kindness ennobles the giver Votes: 0

Money demoralizes even the giver. Votes: 0

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter Votes: 0

Accept the gift and honor the giver. Votes: 0

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer. Votes: 0

Service heals the recipient and the giver. Votes: 0

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. Votes: 0

The belly is the giver of genius. Votes: 0

A giver will never suffer a defeat. Votes: 0

Love is in the giver, not the gift. Votes: 0

God is a creator, not a law giver. Votes: 0

Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver. Votes: 0

God is not a taker. God is a giver. Votes: 0

When you're a good giver you're a good getter. Votes: 0

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver. Votes: 0

The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still. Votes: 0

I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever. Votes: 0

In the world take always the position of the giver. Votes: 0

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's. Votes: 0

You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts... Votes: 0

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. Votes: 0

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. Votes: 0

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. Votes: 0

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver. Votes: 0

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost. Votes: 0

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. Votes: 0

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. Votes: 0

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. Votes: 0

Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver. Votes: 0

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love. Votes: 0

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver. Votes: 0

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. Votes: 0

If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate. Votes: 0

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. Votes: 0

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. Votes: 0

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him. Votes: 0

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. Votes: 0

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God. Votes: 0

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. Votes: 0

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. Votes: 0

Don't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money. Votes: 0

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. Votes: 0

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.. Votes: 0

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. Votes: 0

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. Votes: 0

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail Votes: 0

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. Votes: 0

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.... Votes: 0

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light. Votes: 0

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving. Votes: 0

God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver. Votes: 0

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver. Votes: 0

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. Votes: 0

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. Votes: 0

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon. Votes: 0

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Votes: 0

The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest. Votes: 0

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person. Votes: 0

Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God. Votes: 0

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. Votes: 0

If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract. Votes: 0

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. Votes: 0

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. Votes: 0

I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that. Votes: 0

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? Votes: 0

The dream giver/vision giver will see you through the brutal storms and He'll bring the rainbow in your life." Votes: 0

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver. Votes: 0

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations. Votes: 0

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'. Votes: 0

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. Votes: 0

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. Votes: 0

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver. Votes: 0

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. Votes: 0

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.] Votes: 0

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Votes: 0

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. Votes: 0

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! Votes: 0

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver. Votes: 0

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself. Votes: 0

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. Votes: 0

Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another. Votes: 0

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver. Votes: 0

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. Votes: 0

Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive. Votes: 0

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action. Votes: 0

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love. Votes: 0

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements. Votes: 0

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother Votes: 0

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep. Votes: 0

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart. Votes: 0

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence! Votes: 0

Plant the trees just for beauty,If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver. Votes: 0

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role. Votes: 0

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine. Votes: 0

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Votes: 0

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. Votes: 0

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. Votes: 0

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don't get a moral law unless there's a moral law giver. Votes: 0

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!' Votes: 0

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance. Votes: 0

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. Votes: 0

When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver. Votes: 0

I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver. Votes: 0

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us. Votes: 0

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted. Votes: 0

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker. Votes: 0

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd. Votes: 0

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. Votes: 0

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished. Votes: 0

Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving. Votes: 0

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! Votes: 0

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Votes: 0

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.... Votes: 0

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there? Votes: 0

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. Votes: 0

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives. Votes: 0

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth. Votes: 0

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens. Votes: 0

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done. Votes: 0

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver. Votes: 0

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. Votes: 0

What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0