By your hand the people shall live.

the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our

As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

You never get a blessing for yourself. You get a blessing to bless others. In the words of the black church, "a blessing can't get to you unless it first can go through you." We are blessed to bless.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.