#gene

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#authority #chastise #elders #generations #old

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. ↗

— Graham Greene

#books #doctor-fischer-of-geneva #graham-greene #love #love

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things. But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#love #sacrifice #love

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #kingdom #marriage-supper #mozart #mustard-seed

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? ↗

— Megan Chance

#impatience #men #patience #men

He who is not generous(loving,benevolent),God is not generous(loving,benevolent) to him. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #benevolent #culture #freedom #generous

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#emotionally #find #generally #i #men

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#approved #before #general #getting #had

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#excess #generosity #giving #less #money

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#generousity #money #poverty #money