Randy Alcorn Quotes

In charity there is no excess.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Give, but give until it hurts.

Giving is the highest level of living.

People who give will never be poor.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Charity opens the heart.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.