Quotes about Generosity
Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.
— Randy Alcorn
Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
— Randy Alcorn
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
— Randy Alcorn
When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.
— Randy Alcorn
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
— Randy Alcorn
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
— Randy Alcorn
if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
— Randy Alcorn
Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking
— Reba McEntire
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
— Henry B. Eyring
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
— Joseph Addison
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
— Marcus Aurelius
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt