Give

*GIVE/*GIVING - also see

Having rests on giving and not on getting. To have, give all to all. (ACIM Intro, p38)

As long as you do not turn to God, you think your niceness is your own, then as long as you think that, it is not your own. When you realize that your niceness is not your own but a gift from God - and when you offer it back to God - it is just then that it begins to really be yours. Then you begin to take a share in your own creation. The only things we can keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. (Mere Christianity, p180)

Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death your ambitions and wishes. Keep nothing back. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself and you will find only hatred, loneliness, despair, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. (Mere Christainity, p190)

You cannot have it all until you are willing to give it all up. For example, in order to have yourself as a man of peace, you may have to give up the idea of yourself as a man who never goes to war. (Conversations, p133)

Give, given or gave is used 17 times in John 17 (Jesus' prayer at the last supper) to show to it is God that gives gifts to us. (Jim Krisner, 1/9/97)

I needed to learn to open my heart and give love without requiring anything in return. I clearly saw the dynamics to make any relationship work and perhaps the whole world work: Just keep putting your love out there. We believe that we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. We were born to love. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our well-being is dependent on other people loving us. But this is the kind of upside-down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is that our well-being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out! (Soup, p50)

Don't give up, just give it to Jesus. (sign at N. Assembly of God)

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. (Job 1:21)

The gift of giving - In the movie Schindler's List, a young woman pricks her finger to rub blood on the face of her comrage to make her look more rosy and healthy so she will not be deported to the death camps. Symbolically, one woman literally gives her own blood for another friend so she might live. (Chaplin Mathis and pastor at St. Joeseph's in Lee Ctr, 174th Chapel Call, June '96)

No one can give what they don't have. (Aristotle)

Just a parents sacrifice their possessions by giving them to their children, so does God sacrifice His physical universe by giving it to His children. (Randy)

God not only prepares us to do his will, he also gives us all that we need to do it. God would give all that is needed when it is time; He would prepare the way if we are willing to follow. (Awakening, p132,142)