64 Quotes About Giving

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God.

Downsizing so that others might upgrade is Biblical, Beautiful, and nearly unheard of.

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

God gives us things to share; God doesn’t give us things to hold

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.

Live simply so others may simply live.

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.

It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

Many are poor because they rob God.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

What is outside the system of self-giving is no earth, nor nature, nor 'ordinary life', but simply and solely Hell. Yet even Hell derives from this law such reality as it has.

In my opinion, the idea that we should postpone generous giving (to the church) until our debts are paid or until we get a raise or until the children are grown up or until we have bought a house is contrary to Scripture. We may be able to give more then, but we ought to give generously now.

He, who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Let's not bless others just to receive a blessing in return from them.

We want personal consecration. I have heard that word pronounced purse and all consecration, a most excellent pronunciation. He who loves Jesus consecrates to Him all that he has, and feels it a delight that he may lay anything at the feet of Him who laid down his life for us.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

He promises that if we give, He will pour out a greater blessing on our lives.

God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Giving is true having.

According to the Bible, the marriage act is more than a physical act. It is an act of sharing. It is an act of communion. It is an act of total self-giving wherein the husband gives himself completely to the wife, and the wife gives herself to the husband in such a way that the two actually become one flesh.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.

Seek to give much -- expect nothing.

If I leave behind me 10 (pounds), you and all mankind bear witness against that I lived and died a thief and a robber.

God judges what we give by what we keep.

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family.

There is an inequitable distribution of both goods and opportunities in this world. Therefore, if you have been assigned the goods of this world by God and you don't share them with others, it isn't just stinginess, it is injustice.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Giving is the true barometer of love.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund - namely, all we have - for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself alone.

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving ... half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

You and I must be perfectly willing to part with anything at any moment. It matters not whether I leave two thousand dollars or merely two. What matters is whether I can leave whatever I have without a twinge of regret.

Generosity is impossible apart from our love of God and of His people. But with such love, generosity not only is possible but inevitable.

O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

After giving something to God, you are no longer accountable for it. Your blessing is based on your giving, not on what others do with the gift.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.