“Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.” PeopleWantGivingSaidIdeasShowsMillionsCrossesGive MeDollarsHonestlyInsaneAlsGoing OutSlidesMillion DollarsGoreInconvenientInconvenient Truth Author:Lawrence Bender
“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.” IfsGivingEndsCommunitySucceedCapableGloryCrossesGive MeInstrumentsAccomplishTrialsNothingnessEmployedIncapacity Author:Theodore Guerin
“I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.” PeopleMenGivingOpportunitySinHe ManBasketballCrossesGive MeDiedGood Things Author:Stephen Curry
“When I look at the cross, I learn to say: 'The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). I begin to believe with Paul that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to the cross for me, then He loves me so much He will always give me only what will bring me blessing (Romans 8:32).” IfsGivingBelieveLooksSonBlessingCrossesGive MeGod LoveSparesGalatiansRomans 8 Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson
“Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.” GivingSleepLordSupportArmsCrossesGive MeLaysShouldersBreastsEucharistSupport MeRest In Peace Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne
“It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.” GivingPersonsSoulSufferingJesusLordCreaturesCrossesGive MeFaithfulAbandonGive Me Strength Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska
“Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.” GivingEnoughChristianChristBearsCrossesGive MeBoastInclinationFootstepsPrestige Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.” GivingHeartHelpingShowsJesusChristChristianityLordPovertyTeachGraceSorrowJesus ChristCrossesGive MeDifficultyMovedAddCharityDeedsStrangerActivePityGrievingCompassionateWoeOur LordWidowsOrphanLord Jesus ChristAlleviateOur Lord Jesus Christ Author:Johann Arndt