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Giving Quotes by Randy Alcorn

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Randy Alcorn reminds us that giving more brings more back, because God is the ultimate giver. He talks about offering firstfruits and seeing money as a trust, not a personal treasure. He also says that giving frees us from materialism and puts Christ at the center of our lives.

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Seek the Lord and give God the opportunity to provide through other means before you take out debt.

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Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

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Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard…

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God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

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God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

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Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

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Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

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Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

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Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to…

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Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

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Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your…

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Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and…

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I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on…

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Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of…

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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in…

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The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't…

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It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously.…

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God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find…

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When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet…

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Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an…

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I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted…

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Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall…

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There's a timeless truth behind the concept of giving God our firstfruits. Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure…

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Hudson Taylor and Charles Spurgeon believed that Romans prohibits debt altogether. However, if going into debt is always sin, it's difficult to…

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Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

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Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

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The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

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Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

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Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes…

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Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we…

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Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to…

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A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get…

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..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs…

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To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to…

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Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out…

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The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a…

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Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to…

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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip…

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Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by…

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“Even if materialism brought happiness in this life (which it certainly does not), it would leave us woefully unprepared for the next. Materialism…

“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.”

I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money…

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however…

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.