He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?
– Randy Alcorn
Finances | Eternity
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
– Billy Graham
Finances | Salvation
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
– Zig Ziglar
Finances
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
– Billy Graham
Finances | The Heart
God doesn’t look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.
– Randy Alcorn
Finances | Giving
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
– Martin Luther
Finances
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
– Billy Graham
Charity | Finances
When you plant your seed in the Kingdom of God, the Lord will multiply it far better than Wall Street.
– John Hagee
Finances
To meet Jesus is to look yourself in the pocketbook, which is the most unmistakable way of looking yourself in the heart.
– Assorted Authors
FinancesThe Heart
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
– G.K. Chesterton
Finances | Government
A church debt is the devil’s salary.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Church | Finances
Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
– Hannah More
Finances | Youth
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
– Billy Graham
Finances | Men
It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
– George Mueller
Finances | Greed
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
– Martin Luther
Finances | Pride
Man’s life is of God, not of his goods, however abundant they may be.
– Henry Alford
Finances
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Finances | Power
Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.
– Randy Alcorn
Finances
It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances
What treasures here do Mammon’s sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
– Francis Quarles
Finances
It is a great cause oftentimes why God blesseth not means, because we are so apt to trust in them, and rob God of his glory, not waiting for a blessing at his hands.
– Abraham Wright
Finances
Self worth and net worth are not the same.
– Rick Warren
Finances | Self worth
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | The Heart
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Finances | Charity
A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
– George Herbert
WorryFinances
When you take care of your job, God will take care of the paycheck.
– Woodrow Kroll
Work | Finances
There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
– Richard Sibbes
Finances | Diligence
Financial pursuits and gains are not the key to happiness; the key is keeping God first.
– Paul Chappell
Finances
Means without God cannot help. God without means can, and often doth. I will use good means, but not rest in them.
– Joseph Hall
Finances
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan | Finances
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
– Jeremy Taylor
Finances | Foolishness
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Finances | Community
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Finances
You had better be a poor man and a rich Christian, than a rich man and a poor Christian. You had better do anything, bear anything, and be anything rather than be a dwarf in grace.
– Thomas Brooks
Finances
The poor man’s hand is the treasury of Christ.
– Henry Alford
Finances
Let us not ask of the Lord deceitful riches, nor the good things of this world, nor transitory honors; but let us ask for light.
– Assorted Authors
Finances | Light
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
– George Herbert
Finances
Play not for gain, but sport; who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his heart.
– George Herbert
Finances | The Heart
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Finances | Life
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
– Francois Fenelon
Books | Finances
I could have anything I wanted and if I didn’t have it, it was because I didn’t want it.
– Kirk Cameron
Finances | Honesty
Fortune favors the audacious.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Finances
Do you wish to become rich? You may become so if you desire it in no half-way, but thoroughly. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Finances | Perseverance
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Finances | Sin | Wealth
He is rich that is satisfied.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.
– Matthew Henry
Finances
As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit.
– Richard Cecil
Finances
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
– George Macdonald
Finances
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
– William Wilberforce
Finances | Greed | Doctrine
It is no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.
– Joseph Hall
Finances
Reward a good servant well, and rather get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | Rewards
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
– James H. Aughey
Finances | Idleness
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
– Peter Marshall
Finances
When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn’t keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn’t lose?
– Randy Alcorn
Death | Finances
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
– Assorted Authors
Finances | Contentment | Discontentment
Spend not on hopes.
– George Herbert
Finances
Poverty is no sin.
– George Herbert
Finances
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to cast off his trust in riches.
– John Wesley
Finances
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | Discretion
There is a Spanish proverb, that one who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
– George Herbert
Finances | Greed
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances
Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn’t need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn’t they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?
– Randy Alcorn
Children | Finances
Have you ever noticed that those who worry about finances never seem to have enough?
– Paul Chappell
Finances
Those who would bring great things to pass must rise early. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
– Matthew Henry
Finances | Achievement
Riches, though they may reward virtue, cannot cause it. He is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.
– Owen Feltham
Finances
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
– C.S. Lewis
Satan | Finances | Age
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
Finances | Greed | Money
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
– George Herbert
Finances
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Finances | Character
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
– George Herbert
Finances
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
– George Herbert
Finances | Philosophy
Never was a miser a brave soul.
– George Herbert
Finances
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest souls.
– Francois Fenelon
Finances
Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
– Owen Feltham
Finances | Foolishness
Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties-the desire of supplying their mutual wants. It disposes them to peace by establishing in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tranquility.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Finances
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God’s Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.
– Martin Luther
Finances | Gifts | Foolishness
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
– G.K. Chesterton
Finances | Honesty
Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | Greed
Tithing is God’s financial plan for world evangelism and your personal success. Tithing is what he church did before bingo.
– John Hagee
Finances | Church
It is a great cause oftentimes why God blesseth not means, because we are so apt to trust in them, and rob God of his glory, not waiting for a blessing at his hands.
– Abraham Wright
Finances