“A fundamental lesson for Christians is that we cannot outgive God. He is no man’s debtor. Henry Parsons Crowell, builder of the great Quaker Oats cereal enterprise, when asked for his average rate of giving, said, “For over forty years I have given sixty to seventy percent of my income to God. But i have never gotten ahead of Him! He has always been ahead of me.”
Edwin L. Frizen, Jr. on page 12 of the Foreword to The Grace of Giving: A Biblical Study of Christian Stewardship by Stephen F. Olford (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2000).