Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
True kindness ennobles the giver
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.
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
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.
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.
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.
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
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.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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.
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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 Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.