About Gifts and Giving:

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:34-36, The Bible, KJV

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give. Proverbs 25:14, The Bible, NIV

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. - Seneca


We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald