Not how much of my money will I give to God, but how much of His money will I keep for myself.
Money
Author Unknown
When we place our contribution in the collection plate, we are not giving to the Lord; we are just taking our hands off that which belongs to Him.
Selwyn Hughes
We consider we do not have enough of much in this world — money, friends, prestige, education, and so on… The real trouble is not that people don’t have enough of these things but that these things in themselves are not enough…
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Every spending decision is a spiritual decision.
Larry Burkett
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.
Francis Frangipane
Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it’s a test.
Bill Bright
All God wants of His followers is that we love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and that we trust His promises and obey His commands. He will then give us wisdom, grace, favour, manpower, finances–everything we need–to accomplish all that He has called us to do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
John Wimber
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people. Though repentance and the cleansing of forgiveness, we can rid ourselves of this burden and begin to let God transform our value system. Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.
Herbert Lockyer
The story is told of a farmer who was known for his generous giving and whose friends could not understand how he could give so much and yet remain so prosperous. One day a spokesman for his friends said. “We canto understand you. You give far more than any of the rest of us and yet you always seem to have more to give.” “Oh that is easy to explain,” the farmer said. “I keep shovelling into God’s bin and God keeps shovelling back into mine and God has the bigger shovel.”