Giving should always be from the standpoint of gratitude for that which already is---health, wealth, happiness, and peace. We cannot get health, and we cannot get wealth. We cannot get happiness; we cannot get peace. Those things were established from the beginning. They are a part of the divine Consciousness, and they will unfold as our individual consciousness in proportion to our turning within for that unfoldment, and in proportion to our devotion to the spiritual sense of life. [[Joel S. Goldsmith]], Chapter 8, page 79, “Tithing,” in “The World is New”