James E. Faust Quotes

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

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.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

Prosperity comes to those who observe the law of tithing.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

Is there any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality, charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

Poverty was nowhere more endurable than in a country where duty towards one's neighbor, that is, one's fellow-citizen, was practiced with the utmost piety, as a means of gaining the favor of God the King.

RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

Well, traditionally, my husband and I go back to our farm in Virginia but we do Christmas every day. We truly do. For us, it's about giving. We are of the Christian faith we believe that if people can see God in us, then we're actually doing our job.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!