Quotes About Tithes

#1. Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

Charles Hodge

#2. 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

#3. No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

Wendell Berry

#4. With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Julius Wellhausen

#6. In life, if you are refused membership to a club, you get a refund check for dues paid; what happens to your tithes if Jesus denies you entry to God's Paradise? Mal. 3:10.

Felix Wantang

#7. 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

#8. The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

John Greenleaf Whittier

#9. Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. 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

#11. Ten percent tithes is unbiblical; God is not interested in numbers.

Felix Wantang

#12. Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

Katy Lederer

#13. For this life is one of first fruits, not of tithes.

Martin Luther

#14. Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.

Max Lucado

#15. I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Robert Peel

#16. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Anonymous

#17. Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.

David Green

#18. The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

Akiva Ben Joseph

#19. One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#20. Giving is the gateway to heaven.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Make sure your tithe are being used for something that is visible

Sunday Adelaja

#22. You're worth every bad thing that's ever happened to me, because going through them led me to you.

Samantha Young

#23. Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#24. War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit ...

Carl Von Clausewitz

#25. In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Carl Jung

#26. Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

David Tang

#27. If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#28. You could tell the position of the dragon by the rattle of arrows across the city, and by the screams and gurgles of all those hit by the misses and ricochets.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Use your tithe and offering to take care of the needy and destitute

Sunday Adelaja

#30. There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

Ben Hogan

#31. Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

Bindi Irwin

#32. One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has changed, yet you feel stirred by a grace, swollen with wonder, overflowing with bliss. Everything - for no reason whatsoever - is perfect.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

Eyvind Kang