100 Inspirational Quotes for Church: Uplift Your Faith and Spirit

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

- Saint Augustine

"God loves a cheerful giver!"

- Brian Kluth

"No church ever has a money problem, only a faithfulness problem."

- Brian Kluth

"A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship."

- Billy Graham

"The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without ‘hilarious’ giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is ‘hilarious’ giving there will soon be revival!"

- O.S. Hawkins

"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ."

- C. S. Lewis

"God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises ‘before the nations.’ We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them."

- Timothy J. Keller

"The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service."

- Billy Graham

"From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound."

- John Piper

"Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-formed. The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That’s why theology and worship belong together. The one isn’t just a headtrip; the other isn’t just emotion."

- N.T. Wright

"The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him."

- R.C. Sproul

"Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so."

- D.A. Carson

"I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence."

- John Ortberg

"I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven."

- A.W. Tozer

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

- Oswald Chambers

"True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises."

- Francis Chan

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him"

- John Piper

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"When we work, we work. When we pray, God works."

- James Hudson Taylor

"Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a ‘wish’ (I wish that such-and-such would take place); rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made."

- R.C. Sproul

"He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much."

- Amy Carmichael

"What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:30–31 (NIV)

"God doesn't always take you out of the problem. He stretches your faith by taking you through the problem."

- Rick Warren

"You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It's the home of your dreams!"

- Anne Graham Lotz

"Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV)

"Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope."

- John Piper

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."

- Romans 15:13

"Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not."

- C.S. Lewis

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness"

- Lamentations 3:22–23 (ESV)

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

- Saint Augustine

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

- Romans 8:28

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."

- Romans 8:35–37 (NIV)

"If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do."

- D.L. Moody

"The overriding character trait of Jesus is love, and the entire Gospel story is woven with love. Sometimes it’s not easy, and oftentimes it requires sacrifice, but it’s when we love that we are the most like Jesus."

- Steven Furtick

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?’"

- Mother Teresa

"If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest."

- Corrie ten Boom

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace."

- Numbers 6:24–26 (NKJV)

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:38-39

"I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world."

- John 16:33 (MSG)

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus"

- Philippians 4:4–7 (NIV)

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

"But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life."

- John Piper

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

"They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the Lord—the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more. Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow."

- Jeremiah 31:12–13 (NIV)

"Joy is the serious business of heaven."

- C.S. Lewis

"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."

- Psalm 42:5 (NIV)

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."

- Corrie ten Boom

"One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises."

- John Piper

"It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

- Mother Teresa

"We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship."

- Craig S. Keener

"Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence."

- Rick Warren

"Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. However mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament."

- Richard Foster

"But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters."

- Craig Groeschel

"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."

- C. S. Lewis

"I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven."

- Adrian Rogers

"The Church is the Church only when it exists for others."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."

- E. M. Bounds

"I don’t think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it’s to make them holy."

- Chuck Colson

"Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man."

- Dwight L. Moody

"I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers."

- C. S. Lewis

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."

- Mike Stachura

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."

- Tertullian

"The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it."

- William Tyndale

"A Christian can never serve God AND Money, but they must learn to serve God WITH money."

- Brian Kluth

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

- Billy Graham

"Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is."

- Billy Graham

"Stewardship is the act of organizing your life so that God can spend you."

- Lynn A. Miller

"One of the greatest missing teachings in the American church today is the reminder to men and women that nothing we have belongs to us."

- Gordon MacDonald

"When money is sent to me for my own use, I pass it on to God. As much as five thousand dollars has thus been sent at one time; but I do not regard such gifts as belonging to me; they belong to Him, whose I am and whom I serve. Save for myself? I dare not save; it would dishonor my loving, gracious, all bountiful Father."

- George Müller

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess."

- Martin Luther

"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."

- John Bunyan

"Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity."

- John Calvin

"We are rich only through what we give: and poor only through what we refuse and keep."

- Anne Swetchine

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances ... which make philanthropy necessary."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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."

- John D. Rockefeller

"What I kept, I lost. What I gave, I have."

- Col. Sanders

"If everyone in your church followed your pattern of giving, would your church receive a token, a tip or a tithe?"

- Brian Kluth, Pastor and Generosity Speaker & Author

"Some people say, “Give till it hurts.” But God recommends that we give until it feels good. God loves a cheerful giver!"

- Brian Kluth

"Wealth shines in giving rather than in hoarding: for the miser is hateful, whereas the generous man is applauded."

- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

"Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

- John Bunyan

"My take on tithing in America is that it’s a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It’s a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God’s trust fund—namely, all we have—for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?"

- John Piper

"Examples are few of men ruined by giving."

- Christian Bovee

"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it."

- Charles H. Burr

"I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him."

- William Carey (1761-1834), Baptist missionary to India

"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."

- Barbara Bush

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving."

- Amy Carmichael

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

- Calvin Coolidge

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Dearest lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost."

- Ignatius of Loyola

"I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God’s people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship."

- Stephen Olford

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

- Jack London

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers."

- Francis Quarles

"I believe it is every man’s religious duty to get all he can honestly and to give all he can."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left."

- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Generosity is to materialism what kryptonite is to Superman."

- Lloyd Shadrach

"We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others."

- John Stott

"The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation."

- Peter Marshall

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

- Robert South

"Giving is true loving."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave."

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Earn as much as you can. Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. Give as much as you can."

- John Wesley

"What the Bible says is really true—it’s better to give than to receive."

- Ted Turner

"Giving is more than a responsibility—it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience—it is evidence of our faith."

- William Arthur Ward

"Charitable giving should be a spiritual, rather than an economic decision. Economically, charitable giving never pays."

- Ron Blue

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"Looking for the reward of good works, we must wait patiently till the last day, the day of resurrection."

- John Calvin

"You only get to keep what you give away."

- Sheldon Kopp

"I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity."

- John Wesley

"He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes."

- Percy Ross

"The world asks, ‘What does a man own?’ Christ asks, ‘How does he use it?’"

- Andrew Murray

"He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more."

- William S. Plumer

"Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart."

- John Wesley

"I believe with all of my heart that God’s people possess God’s provision to accomplish and fulfill God’s purposes in the world."

- Joel Vestal

"God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply."

- J. Hudson Taylor

"I will place no value on anything I have or possess except in relation to the Kingdom of Christ. If anything I have will advance that Kingdom, it shall be given or kept whichever will best promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes, both for time and eternity."

- David Livingstone

"The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord."

- James L. Kraft

"If I cannot give bountifully, yet will I give freely."

- Arthur Warwick

"We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess."

- John Stott

"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God."

- Rick Warren

"True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His promises."

- Francis Chan

"A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song."

- Psalm 95:1–2 (NIV)

"Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God: He cares for me.'"

- John Piper

"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it."

- Psalm 118:24

"Christ literally walked in our shoes."

- Tim Keller

"I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve."

- Tim Tebow

"God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."

- Tony Evans

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."

- Thomas Aquinas

"The principle part of faith is patience."

- George MacDonald

"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

- John Calvin

"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."

- Dean Stanley

"I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian."

- Saint Ignatius

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life."

- Charles Stanley

"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."

- Dwight L. Moody

"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."

- Augustine of Hippo

"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"

- Francis Chan

"Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music."

- Martin Luther

"Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference."

- Jonathan Edwards

"Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which ‘comes upon you,’ but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ."

- Graham Kendrick

"Life is God’s novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What the world neglects, the Lord accepts."

- Deborah Brodie

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

- Plato

"Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them."

- A. W. Tozer

"Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

- Garth Brooks

"Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God."

- Sam Storms

"All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed."

- Samuel Waldron

"If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere."

- Billy Sunday

"You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read."

- John MacArthur

"I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship"

- John Paul Warren

"Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home."

- Jim George

"Ministry’s not an option for a Christian; it’s a privilege."

- Lori Hatcher

"If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God."

- Dwight L. Moody

"Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant."

- Elizabeth George

"God takes our sins—the past, present, and future—and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says NO FISHING ALLOWED."

- Corrie ten Boom

"I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus."

- Bill Hybels

"Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words—and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it."

- A.W. Tozer

"When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you. To keep your balance in a crooked world, look at the mountains. Think of Home."

- Max Lucado

"May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."

- Romans 15:5–6 (ESV)

"Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?"

- Colin S. Smith

"Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there."

- A.W. Tozer

"Once I was free in the shackles of sin:Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;Free to be captive to any desire;Free to eternally burn in hell’s fire.‘Til Someone bought me and called me His slave:Bound by commands I am free to obey;Captive by beauty I’m free to adore—Sentenced to sit at His feet evermore."

- John MacArthur

"Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do."

- Billy Graham

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

- Billy Graham

"I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't."

- Sir John Templeton, chairman of Templeton Funds

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility."

- Patricia Amis

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."

- John Stott

"Americans are especially vulnerable to an appeal that says, ‘Give us your dollars, but not your sons and daughters.’ If we do that, missionary vision will die within a generation, and the dollars will also eventually stop."

- Roger Hedlund

"Shine your light at all times; you never know who you are leading out of the dark."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible; Difficult; Done."

- Hudson Taylor

"Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing."

- John Henry Jowett

"The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up."

- John Maxwell

"Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us."

- Charles Stanley

"One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are ‘payment.’"

- Doug Pagitt, pastor

"Preach the gospel at all times, when necessary use words."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"Your ministry will never be bigger than your vision of Jesus."

- Patty Hammond

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not What a lovely sermon, but, I will do something!"

- St. Francis de Sales

"What you are is God's gift to you; what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"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."

- John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937), American industrialist and philanthropist

"When I die, if I leave behind me ten pounds ... you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber."

- John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism

"God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."

- E.M. Bounds

"Sunday is a day to look at what you thought was previously impossible and push it forward into the present where it becomes possible."

- Byron Pulsifer

"We’ve made the church so much like a country club that it’s a surprise they let us keep our tax exempt status!"

- Steven Furtick

"The true character of ministry is a servant’s heart."

- Harold Warner

"Use your ministry to build people, not people to build your ministry."

- Jacquelyn K. Heasley

"The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life."

- Francis Chan

"Excellent ministers cannot be those who yearn for earthly applause. Neither can they be lovers of earthly comfort. The life of ministry is not a life of leisure. The notion that ministry can be both effective and painless is a lie."

- John MacArthur

"We can either use our money to serve our God or our god will be our money."

- Denny & Leesa Bellesi

"What I possess, God owns."

- Howard Dayton

"A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had."

- John Bunyan

"I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek."

- Selwyn Hughes

"Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them."

- Omoakhuana Anthonia

"My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it’s to get heaven to people while they’re alive"

- D.R. Silva

"I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel!"

- R.G. LeTourneau

"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."

- French Proverb

"If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are."

- Charles Stanley

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude"

- Pat Riley

"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place."

- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), American industrialist and philanthropist

"Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delight  in their own merits."

- John Calvin

"Our culture values the size of the gift, but God values the size of what we keep."

- Ed Owens, Chicago fund manager

"Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away."

- Lord Francis Bacon

"Persecution happens when we stand in the face of the enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy."

- Brian Reynolds

"There’s a broken heart on every pew."

- Cecil Randall

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

- Billy Sunday

"see things from God's viewpoint."

- Charles Stanley

"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

- Horace Mann (1796-1859), American educator and politician

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."

- Joseph Addison

"A day to reflect,a day of respect,for all you have been blessed,let your joy be expressed."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church’s location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons."

- Andrew Root

"Most people like it when the pastor says, “family is a priority.” What they don’t like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them."

- Carlos A. Rodriguez

"paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord."

- James L. Kraft

"The fact that I'm a biker doesn't make me a different kinda Christian, but the fact that I'm a Christian makes me a different kinda biker."

- Dano Janowski

"Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery."

- Col. Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

"Give naught, get same. Give much, get same."

- Malcolm Forbes (1919-90), American publisher

"If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity."

- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet

"God looks at the heart, not the hand--the giver, not the gift."

"Some people say, “Give till it hurts.” But God recommends that we give until it feels good."

"Our real worth is what will be ours in eternity."

"Two things ruin a church--loose living and tight giving."

"You should give according to your income, lest God make your income according to your giving."

"Seek joy in what you give not in what you get."

"Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax deductible or not."

"Thank the Lord that you can give instead of depending on others to give to you."

"Some people give God a tenth—a tenth of what they ought to give."

"With the price of everything else going up these days, aren’t you glad the Lord hasn’t increased the tithe to 15%?"

"When it comes to giving until it hurts, most people have a very low threshold of pain."

"The Dead Sea is the dead sea because it continually receives and never gives."

"There are no pockets in a shroud and no U-hauls behind a hearse. Do yer givin’, while yer livin’, so you’ll be knowin’ where its goin’."

"When you give to God, you discover that God gives to you."

"When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him."

"Give to God what's right--not what's left."

"If a pauper gives to God, he’ll feel like a prince. If a prince doesn’t give to God, he’ll feel like a pauper."

"Although the church has been the most consistently hated group on earth, it will continue to expand until He takes it out of this world."

"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to the church."

"Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise."

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. Giving to God is a grace—but not giving to God is a disgrace."

"To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation."

"Remember the 4 R's of Sunday blessings: be Rested, be Restored, be Refreshed, and, be Renewed!"