Quotes about Generosity
This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.
— Randy Alcorn
Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's the starting blocks. Tithes can launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.
— Randy Alcorn
God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7). This doesn't mean we should give only when we're feeling cheerful. The cheerfulness often comes during and after the act of obedience, not before it. So don't wait until you feel like giving—it could be a long wait! Just give and watch the joy follow.
— Randy Alcorn
When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, "This is a test." Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live.
— Randy Alcorn
You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
— Randy Alcorn
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17).
— Randy Alcorn
Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!
— Randy Alcorn
Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales
— Randy Alcorn
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." —John Wesley
— Randy Alcorn
He says to use it "to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:9, NIV).
— Randy Alcorn
Andrew Carnegie said, "The almighty dollar bequeathed to a child is an almighty curse. No man has the right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth.
— Randy Alcorn
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion" (2 Corinthians 9:11).
— Randy Alcorn