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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. -- Lois Lowry
Love the giver more than the gift. -- Brigham Young
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. -- George Washington Cable
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. -- Edmund Burke
For the will and not the gift makes the giver. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver. -- John Naisbitt
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. -- Thomas Jefferson
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. -- Maya Angelou
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! -- Joyce Meyer
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. -- Thomas a Kempis
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. -- Barbara de Angelis
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. -- Saint Ignatius
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent. -- Said Nursi
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Billy Graham
Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts. -- Cormac McCarthy
In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give. -- E. Stanley Jones
If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings. -- Dillon Burroughs
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors. -- Philip Yancey
Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper. -- Joel Osteen
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver. -- A. B. Simpson
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! -- William Cowper
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? -- John Calvin
God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry. -- Brenton Brown
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. -- Rabindranath Tagore
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver. -- Philip Yancey
Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. -- Guru Arjan
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity. -- Kathryn Jean Lopez
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver. -- C. S. Lewis
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. -- E. Stanley Jones
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver. -- Saint Augustine
The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books. -- Lois Lowry
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids. -- Lois Lowry
God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him. -- Francis Chan
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. -- Saint Ignatius
When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me. -- Sathya Sai Baba
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. -- Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver. -- Lois Lowry
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.' -- Lois Lowry
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years. -- Lois Lowry
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish. -- Ellen F. Davis
Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean. -- Thomas a Kempis
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift. -- Frederick Victor Grey Wymark
... it is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life. -- Victor L. Brown
In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions. -- Brenton Thwaites
I'm basically a gift-giver. -- Christie Hefner
I'm not a very good advice-giver. -- Juliana Hatfield
The gift without the giver is rare. -- James Russell Lowell
We like the gift when we the giver prize. -- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
I love to give. I've been a giver all my life. -- Tyler Perry
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. -- Martin Luther
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious. -- Ovid
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. -- James Russell Lowell
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. -- Lois Lowry
I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver. -- Russell Simmons
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. -- Seneca the Younger
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. -- Bruce Lee
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. -- Marvin Olasky
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself. -- Cate Blanchett
I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do. -- Rachel Corrie
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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. -- Cheryl Strayed
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. -- Claire Tomalin
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. -- Lois Lowry
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. -- Bob Dylan
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way. -- Lois Lowry
True kindness ennobles the giver -- Jocelyn Murray
Money demoralizes even the giver. -- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Be a go-giver, not a go-getter -- Arianna Huffington
Accept the gift and honor the giver. -- Mark Deklin
Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer. -- Michael Scott
Service heals the recipient and the giver. -- Bryant H. McGill
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The belly is the giver of genius. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
A giver will never suffer a defeat. -- Sunday Adelaja
Love is in the giver, not the gift. -- William Sloane Coffin
God is a creator, not a law giver. -- Norman Mailer
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver. -- Sivananda
God is not a taker. God is a giver. -- Louie Giglio
When you're a good giver you're a good getter. -- Russell Simmons
To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver. -- Billy Graham
The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever. -- Emma Watson
In the world take always the position of the giver. -- Swami Vivekananda
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's. -- Peter Kreeft
You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts... -- lecrae
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. -- Ann Patchett
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. -- Seneca the Younger
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. -- Ovid
Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver. -- Nicholas Sparks
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost. -- Philip Yancey
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. -- Catherine Hall
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. -- Storm Jameson
Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver. -- Mike Todd
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love. -- Miroslav Volf
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver. -- Eric Samuel Timm
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate. -- Price Pritchett
in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. -- Markus Zusak
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him. -- Randy Alcorn
True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. -- Gautama Buddha
The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God. -- Max Anders
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. -- Laura Huxley
For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. -- William Shakespeare
Don't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money. -- Israelmore Ayivor

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