Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven. (THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS)
It is not persecution of the church in China that I fear. The church has always been able to weather persecution. My fear is love of money in the church. (A CHINESE PASTOR)
You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. (CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON)
Givers can be divided into three types: the flint, the sponge and the honeycomb. Some givers are like a piece of flint – to get anything out of it you must hammer it, and even then you only get chips and sparks. Others are like a sponge – to get anything out of a sponge you must squeeze it and squeeze it hard, because the more you squeeze a sponge, the more you get. But others are like a honeycomb – which just overflows with its own sweetness. That is how God gives to us, and it is how we should give in turn. (ANONYMOUS)
All things are God’s already; we can give Him no right, by consecrating any, that He had not before, only we set it apart to His service – just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord’s before as now. (JOHN SELDEN)
When we surrender every area of our lives– including our finances–to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things. (LARRY BURKETT)
Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts (RALPH W. SOCKMAN)