I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.
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.
God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
Givers for God disarm the power of money.
The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life. . . only the Lord gives and takes life.
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.
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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.
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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.
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
You can change things, you can make things better.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Good givers are great getters.
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.
But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.