Os Guinness on Doing Well and Doing Good

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“The previous readings should have helped us reflect on our own settled convictions about money and giving. One obvious consequence of such conviction is that giving–however we are motivated and whichever avenue of expression we choose–is not a matter of impulse or spur-of-the-moment responses. It is a way of life that issues from a commitment and a plan. Only such planned giving creates the opportunity to address and remedy human needs constructively. Only when giving is a commitment and part of our life goals in this way does it reward the giver as much as those to whom it is given.”

Os Guinness in Doing Well and Doing Good: Money, Giving and Caring in a Free Society (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2001) 280.