Tithing Quotes

We learn about tithing by paying it.

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.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

…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.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

Every individual’s purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.

Conversion must mean more than just being a ‘card-carrying’ member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

..tithing isn’t something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent–it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

I also admire my pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr. (First Baptist Church of Glenarden). My pastor taught me the importance of tithing and giving back, that it has to be at the top of my budget. And he is one of the most generous folks I know.

As we pay our tithing faithfully, the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out upon us His richest blessings.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

The law of tithing is one of the most important
ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying
this law the blessings of prosperity and
success will be given to the Saints.

It’s more blessed to give than to receive – especially kittens.

Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith—faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.

What I agree with is that we 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.

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.

The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing–the giving of a tenth .

Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.

A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint … to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process.