Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most
2. What we think about most
3. How we use our money
4. What we do with our leisure time
5. The company we enjoy
6. Who and what we admire
7. What we laugh at
– AW Tozer –
Money – Possessions
Lay All in God’s Hands – Corrie ten Boom
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.
– Corrie ten Boom –
What Makes Happiness – Charles Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
We Need Not be Vegetarians – Hudson Taylor
God owns all the silver and the gold in the world and all the cattle on a thousand hills, we need not be vegetarians.
– Hudson Taylor –
Content With What You Have – Jeremiah Burroughs
What a foolish thing is this, that because I have not got what I want, I will not enjoy the comfort of what I have.
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1648
The Most Commercial Materialistic Christians Ever – Gene Edwards
More corrupt than the dark days before Luther; more impotently intellectual than during the heyday of Calvinism; more financially perverted than the days that caused John the Baptist to explode; more intoxicated with the drive for spiritual power than any age, yet exercising that outward power with less internal transformation than anyone since King Saul; enamored with the gifts, yet hardly knowing the Giver, our age has produced the most commercial, materialistic, fad-oriented people ever to claim His name.
– Gene Edwards –
Don’t let money have a place in your heart – John Wesley
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
– John Wesley –
Be Thankful For What You Have – Charles Spurgeon
You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Becoming Like the Lord – George Müller
It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honoured in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
– George Müller –