52 Quotes About Money

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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
- Francis Bacon
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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
- Billy Graham
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Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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We understand why in the Bible repentance precedes faith. Before people find their need -- love met in God, they are looking to other things, often money, for satisfaction. So believing in God has to involve a 180-degree turn away (that is, repentance) from the love of money to find contentment and confidence for the future simply in knowing God and depending on His promises.
- Daniel Fuller
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God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.
- Adrian Rogers
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Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.
- John Hagee
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God never leads anyone anywhere for money.
- Jack Hyles
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If rich people only knew when they died--how their relations would scramble for their money, the worms for their bodies, and the devils for their souls--they would not be so anxious to save money!
- William Tiptaft
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Water is useful to the ship and helps it to sail better to the haven, but let the water get into the ship, if it is not pumped out, it drowns the ship. So riches are useful and convenient for our passage. We sail more comfortably with them through the troubles of this world; but if the water gets into the ship, if love of riches gets into the heart, then we are drowned by them.
- Thomas Watson
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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
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I've heard people say, "I want more of a heart for missions." I always respond, "Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions - and in your church and the poor - and your heart will follow."
- Randy Alcorn
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
- Zig Ziglar
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
- Thomas Aquinas
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An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
- Matthew Henry
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Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.
- John MacArthur
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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"!
- Major Ian Thomas
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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
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
- Billy Sunday
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Money won't make you happy, but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
- Thomas Fuller
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God does not need your money; He wants what it represents-you. Finances are God's gift to you to fulfill His will for your life. While God desires you to prioritize His work in giving, He wants you to purpose to follow and serve Him no matter what happens with your finances.
- Paul Chappell
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As Caesar demands of us the stamp of his likeness, so does God also. And as we render money to the one, so we give our souls to the other, our souls enlightened and sealed with the light of His countenance.
- Assorted Authors
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
- George Macdonald
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God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
- Thomas Fuller
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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God doesn't promise to overflow your bank account, but promises to provide for your every need.
- Paul Chappell
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He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.
- William Law
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It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but, for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster.
- William Gurnall
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There is no harm whatever in having money, houses, lands, friends and children if you do not value these things or ones for themselves.
- A. B. Simpson
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Get money to live; then live and use it, else it is not true that thou hast gotten. Surely use alone makes money not contemptible.
- George Herbert
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If I love money more than Christ, woe is me!
- William Tiptaft
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Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
- David Livingstone
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You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.
- Adrian Rogers
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Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
- John Wesley
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
- Thomas Fuller
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When our Savior drove the sheep and oxen out of the temple, He did not drive them into His own pasture; nor sweep the coin into His own pockets, when He overturned the table of the money-changers.
- Thomas Fuller
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Stop planning your life around the income of friends, parents and charity.
- RM Harrington
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Lord God, I thank thee that thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money to leave behind me.
- Martin Luther
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We should never think that once we have given some money and time to the Lord that the rest is ours to do with as we please. All that we have belongs to God, so He should be taken into consideration in everything we do.
- Theodore Epp
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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Christ allows His money to be taken from Him, but never His sheep.
- Assorted Authors
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There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses. Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money might run out of their pockets.
- Assorted Authors
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Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it.
- James H. Aughey
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Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of religion as the possession of money.
- J. C. Ryle
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Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels and lawsuits in the world arise from one single cause - money!
- J. C. Ryle
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The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.
- Tim Keller
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
- William Penn
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