Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.
– David Shibley –
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity… Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
– John Calvin –
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– Dwight L. Moody –
My experience was that the less I spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable joy all the day long, and every day was my happy experience.
– Hudson Taylor –
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Complete John Ploughman
God owns all; He owns me; He owns my home; He owns my children; He owns my property. I have called your attention before to the fact that the modern idea of ownership is pagan. The Christian idea is this: that God is the absolute owner of all things.
– Clovis G. Chappell –
A man could have all the money in all the banks in all the world, and be worth nothing so far as God is concerned, if he were still living “to and for himself”!
– Ian Thomas –
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
– Hudson Taylor –