Great Quotes on Giving

I found some great quotes on Giving today. The link is here: http://saintannes.episcopalatlanta.org/images/customer-files/St_Anne_s_Episcopal_Church/tithing.pdf

Some of my favourite quotes are:


I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed
my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.” — JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. (1839-1937),
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST


There's no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.   COL. SANDERS, FOUNDER OF
KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN


"I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling.  I always saw
greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who
didn't."  SIR JOHN TEMPLETON, CHAIRMAN OF TEMPLETON FUNDS

When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him.

“Examples are few of men ruined by giving.” — CHRISTIAN BOVÉE


“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay
you.” — JOHN BUNYAN (1628-88), ENGLISH PURITAN WRITER AND PREACHER


“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the
unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.” — BARBARA BUSH (1925- ), FORMER
AMERICAN FIRST LADY


“I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to
supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed
in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.” — WILLIAM CAREY (1761-1834), BAPTIST
MISSIONARY TO INDIA


“No one has ever become poor by giving.” — ANNE FRANK (1929-45), JEWISH DUTCH DIARIST
DURING NAZI OCCUPATION


“Dearest lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and
not to count the cost.” — IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA (1491-1556), JESUIT FOUNDER


“The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the
money I have given to the Lord.” — JAMES L. KRAFT (1874-1953), KRAFT-PHOENIX CHEESE
CORP. CHAIRMAN


“I believe it is every man’s religious duty to get all he can honestly and to give all he can.”
— JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. (1839-1937), AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST


“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” — JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. (1874-1960),
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST


Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.” —
BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN (1895-1979), ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP


“Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much
more than I gave.” — CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON (1834-92), ENGLISH BAPTIST PREACHER


“What the Bible says is really true—it’s better to give than to receive.” — TED TURNER
(1938- ), MEDIA MOGUL AND PHILANTHROPIST