Quotes on Money & Possessions

Christian quotes on Money & Possessions — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

God made us to love people and use things. Our problem is that we love things and use people.

Unknown

My banker is the good Lord. He sees to it that there is always something.

Mother Teresa

By God's grace, my eyes do not look at the empty storerooms and the empty purse, but at the riches of our Lord alone.

George Muller

To count money out of an empty purse, to bake bread out of the clouds — that is our Lord God's art alone. Yet he does it daily. He makes everything out of nothing.

Martin Luther

The concern for my daily bread is a material question. The concern for my brother's bread is a spiritual question.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C.S. Lewis

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

Warren Wiersbe

What a person loves, that is their god. For they carry it in their heart, they turn it over day and night, they sleep with it and wake with it, whatever it may be — wealth or money, pleasure or honor.

Martin Luther

Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.

John Wesley

Money is like manure. If you spread it well, it bears much fruit. But if it all stays in one pile, it stinks.

Unknown

You can’t take it with you – but you can send it on ahead.

Randy Alcorn

The bread that is spoiling in your house belongs to the hungry. The shoes that are mildewing under your bed belong to those who have none. The clothes stored away in your trunk belong to those who are naked.

Basil of Caesarea

Live simply so others may simply live.

Mother Teresa

All the danger is when the world gets into the heart. The water is useful for the sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.

Thomas Watson

For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world (1 Tim. 6:7). There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

John Piper

Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.

C.S. Lewis

There are three conversions: the conversion of the heart, mind and purse.

Martin Luther

The Sabbath isn't a day to buy or sell — to get more. It's a day to enjoy what I already have.

John Mark Comer

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 Haddon Spurgeon

God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Billy Graham

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

You are never as rich as when you place everything you have into the hand of the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Rich is he who has much; richer is he who needs little; richest is he who gives much.

Gerhard Tersteegen

It is God's delight and honor to give abundantly.

Martin Luther

It is no great feat to be an honest man when you have soup to spoon up every day.

Heinrich Böll

I believe the less we possess, the more we have to give. And the more we possess, the less we are able to give.

Mother Teresa

God gave me the money that day because I needed it. But often I asked him when I only believed I needed the money, and then he said: No, Moody, see how you get along. It will do you more good if I stay firm for a while.

D.L. Moody

Do not honor Christ here with silken garments while outside he perishes of cold and nakedness in the street. God has no need of golden chalices, but of golden people.

John Chrysostom

Dear Lord, I know that you have still more. I shall not lack in you. For if it were necessary, the heavens would still rain guilders.

Martin Luther

God says: Don't plan with what's in your pocket, but with what's in mine.

Reinhard Bonnke

If you have lost anything, consider that you gave it to a poor person.

Jüdisches Sprichwort

Everything you don't want to share owns you.

Arno Backhaus

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing away food is like stealing from the poor and the hungry.

Pope Francis

The less I spent on myself and the more I invested in others, the happier I was and the more blessing filled my heart.

Hudson Taylor

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god.

John Piper

Everything we try to hold on to down here will be lost. But everything we put into God’s hands will be ours for eternity.

Randy Alcorn

If we have no quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

John Bunyan

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Randy Alcorn

That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People quoted here

Unknown, Mother Teresa, George Muller, Martin Luther, Nikolai Berdyaev, C.S. Lewis, Warren Wiersbe, John Wesley, Randy Alcorn, Basil of Caesarea, Thomas Watson, John Piper

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