Dwight L. Moody Quotes

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

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.

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

God will give to you what He knows will flow through you.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use.

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.