Giving Quotes

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

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

~ Randy Alcorn

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.

~ Taisen Deshimaru

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives.

~ Oswald Chambers

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

~ Randy Alcorn

Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.

~ Jack Kerouac

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

~ Holly Robinson

i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.

~ Jane Stanton Hitchcock

It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom?

~ Randy Alcorn

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

~ Randy Alcorn

I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree that they deserve it! You see, we are not God. Only God can love people undeserving without spoiling them. Us, on the other hand, can love someone so undeserving, and actually turn the person into someone so vile who is convinced that they were always entitled to every bit of it! Mamma mia! And what about giving? Yes, they all want us to give and expect nothing in return, they all have many scriptures to lay on our tables when it is they who are at the receiving end! But when the tables are turned and we are the ones at the receiving end, suddenly all the scriptures mean something else! And all the times they were on our end and we gave to them- suddenly are all forgotten!

~ C. Joybell C.

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

~ Randy Alcorn

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

~ Andy Stanley

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

~ Andy Stanley

You can give without loving ,but you can't love without giving.

~ Jazlyn Roehl

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

~ Andy Stanley

Bad is never good until worse happens.

~ Danish Proverb

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

~ Lord Acton

Gifts are hooks.

~ Martial

Good things when short are twice as good.

~ Baltasar Gracián

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

~ Joseph Addison

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

~ Ignatius Loyola

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

~ William Butler Yeats

Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required.

~ Bible

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

~ Robertson Davies

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

~ Anonymous

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

~ William Blake

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

~ G. K. Chesterton

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

~ Stephen Grellet

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

~ Josh Billings

That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

~ William Wordsworth

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

~ Bible

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

~ Brooks Thomas

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

~ Charles Kingsley

Good things are not done in a hurry.

~ German Proverb