I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

No church ever has a money problem, only a faithfulness problem.

When you give to God, you discover that God gives to you.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Giving to God is a grace – but not giving to God is a disgrace.

There’s no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.

What I kept, I lost. What I gave, I have.

If a pauper gives to God, he’ll feel like a prince. If a prince doesn’t give to God, he’ll feel like a pauper.

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn’t.

When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him. Give to God what’s right – not what’s left.

Some people give God a tenth – a tenth of what they ought to give.

You should give according to your income, lest God make your income according to your giving.

Do your giving’, while your living’, so you’ll be knowing’ where it’s going’.

There are no pockets in a shroud and no U-hauls behind a hearse.

One of the greatest missing teachings in the American church today is the reminder to men and women that nothing we have belongs to us.

Two things ruin a church – loose living and tight giving.

There are many who will give the Lord the credit but never give Him the cash.

God looks at the heart, not the hand – the giver, not the gift.

If everyone in your church followed your pattern of giving, would your church receive a token, a tip or a tithe?

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

When it comes to giving until it hurts, most people have a very low threshold of pain.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get.

Some people say, “Give till it hurts.” But God recommends that we give until it feels good. God loves a cheerful giver!

With the price of everything else going up these days, aren’you glad the Lord hasn’t increased the tithe to 15%?

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax deductible or not.

The Dead Sea is the Dead Sea because it continually receives and never gives.

Thank the Lord that you can give instead of depending on others to give to you.

Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs … and then cackles.

Wealth shines in giving rather than in hoarding: for the miser is hateful, whereas the generous man is applauded.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are “payment.”

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?

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place.

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

No one is as generous as he who has nothing to give.

Dearest lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God’s people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.

Our culture values the size of the gift, but God values the size of what we keep.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

I believe it is every man’s religious duty to get all he can honestly and to give all he can.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

Generosity is to materialism what kryptonite is to Superman.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Giving is true loving.

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.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation.

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

What the Bible says is really true – it’s better to give than to receive.

Giving is more than a responsibility—it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience – it is evidence of our faith.

If I cannot give bountifully, yet will I give freely.

When I die, if I leave behind me ten pounds ... you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

Earn as much as you can. Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. Give as much as you can.