Tithe Quotes

• 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

  Salary, Dollars, Able

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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 can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

  Randy Alcorn

  Block, Giving, Grace

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.

  Andy Stanley

  Mean, People, Giving

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Long, Greedy, Needy

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Giving, Safe

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

  John Piper

  Views, Giving, Promise

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• Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Serious, Pursuit

  Herbert Spencer (1890). “Education, Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72, Рипол Классик

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• I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessing, Heaven, Faithful

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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 gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhealthy to view tithing as a place to stop, but it can still be a good place to start.

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Joy, Grace

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

  Phil Pringle

  Curse

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• Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Blessing, Offering

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• Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Blessing, Law

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  People, Giving, Way

  Haddon W. Robinson, Scott M. Gibson (2002). “Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching”, p.142, Baker Books

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• ...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow charitably bestowing upon God. Paying tithing is discharging a debt.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Honesty, Integrity, Offering

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• The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

  Bill Hybels

  Goal, Stewardship, Wonderful

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• As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Children, Blessing, Heaven

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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 Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Fall, Wine

  Source: www.patheos.com

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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 of those firstfruits, I ask myself, "Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more?" Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it.

  Randy Alcorn

  Spiritual, Jesus, Children

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Spiritual, Thinking, Blessing

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• America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, America, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sweet, Offering, Leader

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Husband, Father, Book

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• Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

  Sitting Bull

  Father, Race, People

  "Chief Sitting Bull knew of the Elite in this 1877 speech". Sitting Bull's speech at the Powder River Conference, beforeitsnews.com. 1877.

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• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  Sallust

  Sacrifice, Hair, Offering

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• I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Honesty, Offering, Giving

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