64 quotes found
“To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.”
“Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?”
“It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.”
“Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”
“What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.”
“Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.”
“When you pretend you dont feel hurt or angry or devastated, youre not fooling God. Be honest! Dont misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. ...”
“There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.”
“In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a long,lonely march up a hill, who in the world's worst hour did the most courageous...”
“The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what t...”
“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargainin...”
“Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.”
“We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.”
“Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?”
“When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' nee...”
“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.”
“To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear ...”
“If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.”
“If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, gua...”
“A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.”
“Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.”
“Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our ...”
“We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 2...”
“Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in...”
