Financial Stewardship Quotes

• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

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  Martin Luther

  Heart   Giving   Doe  

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

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  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Our Love   Stewardship   Financial  

  Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

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• Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

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  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Mazes   Stewardship   Financial  

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• God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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  Billy Graham

  Motivational   God   Religious  

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.21, B&H Publishing Group

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• We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

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  Billy Graham

  Spiritual   Hoarding   Stewardship  

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money.

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  Richard Halverson

  Jesus   Real   Character  

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• Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

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  Charles Spurgeon

  Money   Battle   Half  

  "John Ploughman's Talks".

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• The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?

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  John Mott

  Giving   Doe   World  

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• All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

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  John Selden

  Pain   Giving   Apricots  

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.44

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