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“The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.” — Sir John Templeton, investor and philanthropist

"Jesus commended the widow not for giving away so much, but for keeping so little." — Ed Owens, Chicago fund manager

"Our culture values the size of the gift, but God values the size of what we keep." — Ed Owens, Chicago fund manager

There's no good reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. Col. Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

“The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.” — James L. Kraft (1874-1953), Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. chairman

"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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” - Audrey Hepburn

“Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without a giver is bare. Who gives himself with alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor and Me.” — James Russell Lowell (1819-91), American author, poet and diplomat

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.” — C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), English author and scholar

“Remember this—you can’t serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.” — Selwyn Hughes, English pastor and author

“There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.” — Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-43), Scottish pastor

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. ~C.S.Lewis

“The key word of the dedicated Christian should be ‘give.’ Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.” — Billy Graham

“At its best, giving is an act of worship.” — Cornelius J. Dyck (1740-92), colonel under the command of Gen. George Washington

"Our culture values the size of the gift, but God values the size of what we keep." — Ed Owens, Chicago fund manager

“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 (1592-1644), author

“Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.” — Francis Quarles (1592-1644), author

“I believe it is every man’s religious duty to get all he can honestly and to give all he can.” — John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937), American industrialist and philanthropist

“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” — John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960), American industrialist and philanthropist

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ~ William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” - ~ Charles Dickens