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 –
Money – Possessions
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 –
Money changing or praying? – Jim Cymbala
The first-century money changers were in the temple, but they didn’t have the spirit of the temple… They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord’s house. “The atmosphere of my Father’s house,” Jesus seemed to say, “is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.”
– Jim Cymbala –
A Full Heart – James D. Maxon
If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.
– James D. Maxon –
When this is lost, all is lost – Billy Graham
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
– Billy Graham –
Release your grasp on the temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –