GIVING-GENERAL
Charity is,
indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens
us to God Himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes
the man.
He is no fool
who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
When we come
to the end of life, the question will be, "How much have you given?"
not "How much have you gotten?"
George Sweeting
Men of Integrity, v. 1, n. 2
What you
receive from life will be greatly determined by what you give in life. You’ve
got to put something in to get something out.
Rod
Rogers
Copied from: Pastor Driven Stewardship: 10 Steps to
Lead Your Church to Biblical Giving by Rod Rogers, © 2006, p. 87. Used by
permission of Rod Rogers – www.DynamicGiving.com.
All rights reserved.
Giving is true having.
C.H. Spurgeon
Christian
giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by
self-congratulation.
John Stott
The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p.
131.
Nothing that you have not given away will
ever be really yours.
C.S. Lewis
You can
always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Amy Carmichael
Generosity is
impossible apart from our love of God and of His people. But with such love,
generosity not only is possible but inevitable.
John MacArthur
1 Corinthians, Moody, 1984, p. 452.
God made all
of His creation to give. He made the sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds, the
earth, the plants to give. He also designed His
supreme creation, man, to give. But fallen man is the most reluctant giver in
all of God’s creation.
John MacArthur
1 Corinthians, Moody, 1984, p. 456.
He who gives
when he is asked has waited too long.
Author Unknown
When it comes
to giving until it hurts, most people have a very low threshold of pain.
Author
Unknown
Our giving is
but a reflex of God’s giving.
Sam Storms
Copied
from: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God by Sam Storms,
© 2000, p. 64. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.org. All rights
reserved.
There are
three kinds of giving: grudge giving, duty giving, and thanksgiving. Grudge
giving says, “I have to”; duty giving says, “I ought to”; thanksgiving says, “I
want to.”
Robert Rodenmeyer
Quoted in John Blanchard, Gathered Gold,
Evangelical Press, 1984, p. 113.
A wise lover
values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas A. Kempis
Watch lest
prosperity destroy generosity.
Henry
Ward Beecher
There cannot
be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the
observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we
possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed
for the good of our neighbour.
John
Calvin