Those who expect God to be generous with them must be generous with their fellows. "Give," says Jesus, "and gifts will be given you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; for whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to you in return" (Luke 6:38).
If you are tight-fisted and calculating with the poor, the needy, with those who ask you for help and service, how can you expect God to be generous with you?
— Anthony de Mello, Contact With God