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 –
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 –
If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.
– James D. Maxon –
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
– Billy Graham –
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 –
It’s about time we stopped buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.
– Adrian Rogers –
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world the more we forget that there’s another world to come.
– AW Tozer –