Quotable

~ I'm busy reading these days.  All quotations taken from

Randy Alcorn's Money, Possessions, and Eternity, chapters 1-5.

16 chapters left to read!

He who has God and everything has no more than he who has God alone.
C.S. Lewis





I hate to live with that nagging feeling deep inside that when Jesus called people to follow him he had more in mind that I am experiencing.






That's why the central focus of this book is not insurance as much as assurance, not securities but security, not trusts but trust, not principal but principles, not real estate but our real estate.




Ultimately, every form of asceticism is selective and arbitrary...if material things are truly bad, we would have to eat, drink, and wear nothing to avoid being tainted  Because the body itself is material, both masochism and suicide are logical conclusions of pure asceticism...





Poverty also hath its temptations...For even the poor may be undone by the love of that wealth and plenty which they never get; and they may perish for over-loving the world, that never yet prospered in the world. Richard Baxter




God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people...Materialism results from a failure to realize that we were made for only one Person and one Place.




We must understand that materialism is not simply wrong.  It is stupid.




When of the wealthiest men in history, John D. Rockefeller, died, his accountant was asked, "How much did John D. Leave?"
The accountant's reply was classic: "He left all of it."





Whenever true Christianity spreads, it must cause diligence and frugality, which in the natural course of things, must beget riches!  And riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every tempter that is destructive of Christianity.  Now if there be no way to prevent this, Christianity is inconsistent with itself, and of consequence, cannot stand, cannot continue long among any people; since, wherever it generally prevails, it saps its own foundation.  John Wesley





The New Testament tells us that "greed...is idolatry" (Colossians 3:5).  Idolatry is worshiping and serving anything other than the one true God...For the bride of Christ, idolatry is the same as adultery ~ a wanton betrayal of a husband who loves us enough to die for us.  





A strange species we are.  We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty.  If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable greedy, sick.  John Steinbeck




Materialism is the mother of anxiety.