It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
What Makes Happiness – Charles Spurgeon
Money – Possessions
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 –
What is its eternity value? – John Wesley
I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
– John Wesley –
1703-1791
Compelled to Give All – Andrew Murray
How many have given only what they could never miss and what costs them little or no sacrifice. How different it would be if the full blessing of Pentecost began to flow in. How the hearts of men would burn with love for Jesus and, out of sheer joy, be impelled to give everything that He might be known as Savior and all might know His love.
– Andrew Murray –
from Experiencing the Holy Spirit