The wisest Christians on money were not always pastors.
Sometimes they were theologians, novelists, missionaries, business owners.
Here are seventy-five Christian financial quotes, organized by topic — each paired with the Scripture behind it.
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On stewardship "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." — John Wesley (Luke 16:9) "It is God's money.
It is God's house.
It is God's clothing." — A.W.
Tozer (Psalm 24:1) "You are not your own; you were bought with a price." — 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "God has entrusted us with his money, not to bury it, but to invest it." — Randy Alcorn (Matthew 25:14-30) "Stewardship is not what we do with our money.
Stewardship is what we do with everything God has given us." — Howard Dayton "The greatest enemy of stewardship is the pretending that anything truly belongs to us." — Tim Keller On generosity "It is more blessed to give than to receive." — Acts 20:35 "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael "God can do more with our 90% than we can do with 100%." — Adrian Rogers "Giving is the only antidote to materialism." — Randy Alcorn "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." — Jim Elliot "God does not need our money.
But you and I desperately need the experience of giving it." — James MacDonald "Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness." — John Stott On contentment "Godliness with contentment is great gain." — 1 Timothy 6:6 "Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have." — Anonymous "He is rich who possesses much; he is richer who needs little." — Charles Spurgeon "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." — Seneca (echoing Ecclesiastes 5:10) "True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue — not only affirmative but creative." — G.K.
Chesterton "If we cannot be satisfied with much, we will not be satisfied with more." — John Piper On debt and discipline "The borrower is the slave of the lender." — Proverbs 22:7 "Debt is the worst poverty." — Thomas Fuller "A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went." — Dave Ramsey "Live within your harvest." — Charles Spurgeon "Owe no one anything, except to love each other." — Romans 13:8 "You can't borrow your way out of debt any more than you can drink your way to sobriety." — Dave Ramsey "The first step to getting out of debt is to stop digging." — Larry Burkett On wealth and its dangers "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils." — 1 Timothy 6:10 "Money is a wonderful servant but a terrible master." — P.T.
Barnum (echoing Matthew 6:24) "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 Spurgeon "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." — Socrates "Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of riches is." — John Chrysostom "Wealth is not God's way of telling us we are special.
It is God's way of testing what we will do with what we have." — R.
Kent Hughes On work and calling "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men." — Colossians 3:23 "There is no such thing as secular work.
There is only secular hearts." — Os Guinness "All work done for God is sacred." — Eric Liddell "God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called." — Anonymous "Work is dignity, and worship is duty." — Tim Keller "The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes." — Martin Luther On eternity and treasure "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." — Matthew 6:20 "You can't take it with you — but you can send it on ahead." — Randy Alcorn "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you will get neither." — C.S.
Lewis "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." — Jim Elliot "What we keep, we lose.
What we give, we keep forever." — Martin Luther "Money is a terrible god but a useful servant when made to serve eternal purposes." — John Piper On giving and the tithe "God loves a cheerful giver." — 2 Corinthians 9:7 "The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation." — Peter Marshall "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." — Martin Luther "Generosity is the only investment that never fails." — Henry David Thoreau (echoing Proverbs 11:25) "When you give to God, you are not making a contribution; you are making an exchange." — Charles Stanley On trust and provision "My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." — Philippians 4:19 "God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken." — Charles Spurgeon "Where God guides, He provides." — Anonymous "Faith is not believing that God can.
It is knowing that God will." — Ben Stein "Worry is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength." — Corrie ten Boom "He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment but a fool forever." — John Tillotson On saving and prudence "In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil." — Proverbs 21:20 "A part of all you earn is yours to keep." — George S.
Clason "Saving is preparing for the providence of God." — Larry Burkett "The ant gathers her food in summer." — Proverbs 6:8 "Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language." — Elise Boulding A closing word from C.S.
Lewis "I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little." — C.S.
Lewis, Mere Christianity , Book III, Chapter 3