Quotes about Giver

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.

you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.

Here is the spiritual reality that you need to know, understand, and live in light of—if you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.

So you are to present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, and from these you are to give the LORD’s offering to Aaron the priest.

A bribe is a charm to its giver; wherever he turns, he succeeds.

Love the giver more than the gift.

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

The disappointment that is exhausting and frustrating you? It holds the potential for so much good. But we'll only see it as good if we trust the heart of the Giver.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.