Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
Money – Possessions
Cars or Countries? – David Shibley
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 –
Blinded by Prosperity – John Calvin
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity… Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
– John Calvin –
Affliction or Prosperity – Dwight L. Moody
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– Dwight L. Moody –
The more I gave away … – Hudson Taylor
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 –
What Makes Happiness – Charles Spurgeon
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 – Clovis G. Chappell
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 –
Rich and selfish – Ian Thomas
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 –
Something better than riches and gold – Hudson Taylor
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
– Hudson Taylor –