The world asks, “What does a man own?” Christ asks, “How does he use it?”
– Andrew Murray
Stewardship
If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world’s worst investor.
– John Hagee
Stewardship
Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
– Leonard Ravenhill
War
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
– George Washington
War | Peace
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
– Oswald Chambers
Worship | Blessings | Stewardship
The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.
– Jack Hyles
Peace | Rewards | Integrity
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. – Discipline: The Glad Surrender
– Elisabeth Elliot
Stewardship | Discipline | Work
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
– Augustine
Peace | War
The fear of the Lord helps us recognize our accountability to God for the stewardship of leadership. It motivates us to seek the Lord’s wisdom and understanding in difficult situations. And it challenges us to give our all to the Lord by serving those we lead with love and humility.
– Paul Chappell
Stewardship | Leadership
Don’t say that a loving God is going to send you to hell – He’s not. The thing that’s going to send you to hell is that you’re a sinner and you don’t want to admit it.
– J. Vernon McGee
Hell | Stewardship
Who has ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other, resembles hell, it is its wars.
– Albert Barnes
War
“I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,”; said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.
– Alexander MacLaren
Helping | Rewards
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
If I have but enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself and them; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.
– George Herbert
Stewardship
The war is not won on the battlefield; it is won in the boot camp.
– Jack Hyles
War
The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.
– George Whitefield
Prophecy | Justice | Rewards
Since my money is God’s money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.
– John Hagee
Money | Stewardship
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
– Thomas Merton
Love | Rewards
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
War
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
– Augustine
Charity | Stewardship
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
– John Henry Newman
War
Once the necessity and the fruitfulness of the method is recognized, however, no worthy workman in the Word can refuse the effort it requires. He is called as a scribe of the kingdom to bring forth treasures new and old, and any labor that issues in a fuller preaching of Christ has its reward.
– Edmund Clowney
Preaching | Rewards
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
– David Brainerd
Stewardship | Business
I hate war… for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
War
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor that has an army at his heels.
– John Selden
War
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
– George Washington
War | Enemies
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
– David Wilkerson
America | War
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
– George Herbert
War
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
– George Washington
Obedience | Discipline | War
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
– Assorted Authors
War | Hatred
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
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.
War | Money
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitude to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).
– John Flavel
Providence | Rewards
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God; so then it shall bring forth such plenty of reward, that it shall return upon thee with abundance of increase.
– John Bunyan
Blessings | Rewards
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
– Jeremy Taylor
Virtue | Rewards
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
– Thomas Aquinas
War | Authority
Soldiers that carry their lives in their hands, should carry the grace of God in their hearts.
– Richard Baxter
War | Grace
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
– G.K. Chesterton
Marriage | War
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord’s will and did it. Their people followed them – sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution – and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!
– A. W. Tozer
Obedience | Rewards
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
– John Calvin
Christ | Grace | Rewards
At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.
– Rick Warren
Stewardship | Rewards
Marshall thy notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight packed up in bundles, than when it lies flapping and hanging about his shoulders.
– Thomas Fuller
Stewardship
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
– Thomas a Kempis
Heaven | Eternal Life | Rewards
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
– G.K. Chesterton
Apathy | War | Patriotism
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
– G.K. Chesterton
Government | War
What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His Children? It cannot be.
– John Flavel
Peace | War
Reward a good servant well, and rather get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | Rewards
There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
– John Calvin
Eternal Life | Rewards
The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all….If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.
– A. T. Pierson
Service | Rewards
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah’s mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors; that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.
– Matthew Henry
Examples | Rewards
If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward’s mentality toward the assets He had entrusted – not given – to me. A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.
– Randy Alcorn
Stewardship
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
– George Washington
War | Discipline
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness | Rewards
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
War
There are many unacceptable reasons for war. Imperialism. Financial gain. Religion. Family feuds. Racial arrogance. There are many unacceptable motives for war. But there is one time when war is condoned and used by God: wickedness.
– Max Lucado
War
A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward.
– Jack Hyles
Responsibility | Rewards
Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
– J. C. Ryle
Laziness | Service | Rewards
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
Stewardship | Money
“I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,”; said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.
– Alexander MacLaren
Helping | Rewards
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
– Assorted Authors
War | Contentment
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
– George Washington
War
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
– Francois Fenelon
War
Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.
– John Wesley
Worship | Rewards
Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God’s intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or when we expected it, but God often provides much more abundantly than we could think or ask. He interprets our intent and either answers or stores up our prayers. Sincere prayers are never lost. Energy, time, love, and longing can be endowments that will never be wasted or go unrewarded.
– Wesley L. Duewel
Prayer | The Holy Spirit | Rewards
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
– Henry Ward Beecher
War
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
– Dwight L. Moody
Life | Stewardship
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will then we may take that it is worth paying.
– C.S. Lewis
Atonement | War | Freedom
The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all….If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.
– A.T. Pierson
Service | Rewards
To please a friend is a welcome bonus; to help him is the great reward.
– Jack Hyles
Friendship | Rewards
I’m just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm’s way.
– Sarah Palin
War
Who has ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other, resembles hell, it is its wars.
– Albert Barnes
War
To ask God to prohibit war, then, is to ask him to prohibit the consequence of human behavior. Something he has never been wont to do. As long as there is sin there will be war.
– Max Lucado
War
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
– Mike Huckabee
Stewardship | The Future | Responsibility
Not one single war in which American forces have been engaged since WWII has been constitutionally fought. Not one!
– Chuck Baldwin
War
To labor to be acquainted with the ways, wiles, methods, advantages, and occasions of the success of sin, is the beginning to this warfare.
– John Owen
Sin | War
Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants’ work than His servants do themselves… And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master’s behalf, which does not receive a reward.
– J. C. Ryle
Service | Faithful | Rewards
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War | Sacrifice
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society – shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War
Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his word, honour our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.
– Matthew Henry
Contentment | Diligence | Rewards
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
War
Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward.
– Francis Quarles
Charity | Rewards
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
– George Washington
Peace | War | Prosperity
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
– George Washington
War | Enemies
The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Family | War | History
I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
– Assorted Authors
EternityVProvidence | Rewards
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
– George Herbert
War
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
– Helen Keller
War
There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
– Assorted Authors
Charity | Rewards | Meekness
‘Tis better that thou be rather something sparing, than very liberal, to even a good servant; for as he grows full, he inclines either to be idle, or to leave thee: and if he should at any time murmur, thou mayest govern him by a seasonable reward.
– Thomas Fuller
Examples | Discretion | Rewards
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
– David Brainerd
Stewardship | Discretion | Time
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
– Martin Luther
War