Importance of Tithing

President Wilford Woodruff
“I want the brethren to understand this one thing, that our tithing, our labor, our works are not for the exaltation of the Almighty, but they are for us” (Emerson Roy West, Profiles of the Presidents [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1972], p. 155).

President Lorenzo Snow (at a solemn assembly in the Salt Lake Temple, 2 July 1899)
“A part of a tithing is no tithing at all in the eyes of the law that the Lord has revealed” (Life of Joseph F. Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1938], p. 308).

President Joseph F. Smith
“The law of tithing is a test by which the people as individuals shall be proved. Any man who fails to observe this principle shall be known as a man who is indifferent to the welfare of Zion, who neglects his duty as a member of the Church” (Gospel Doctrine [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1939], p. 226).

President Heber J. Grant
“I bear witness—and I know that the witness I bear is true—that the men and women who have been absolutely honest with God, who have paid their one-tenth … God has given them wisdom whereby they have been able to utilize the remaining nine-tenths, and it has been of greater value to them, and they have accomplished more with it than they would if they had not been honest with the Lord” (West, Profiles of the Presidents, 1972 ed., p. 231).