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There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

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

To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

Real gold fears no fire.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28, ESV).

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows.

It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven?

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living and life-giving belief in Heaven.

Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

Reality's such a pain sometimes, you know?

If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250 000 people every day go either to Heaven or to Hell.

God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis

God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." - Burk Parsons

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.

For every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot.

Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.

When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

Something nonhuman doesn't become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. - J. C. Ryle

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. - Sinclair Ferguson

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord.

It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17).

I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau

When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke ... and knowing it.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Never forget Yesu is King. Never forget your home is in another world. Never forget your father will be waiting to see you again.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." - Oswald Chambers

When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.

I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him.

God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.