#caring

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. ↗

— John Piper

#compassion #evangelism #giving #gospel #greed

The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#helping #kindness #money

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#care #caring #health #health care #health care system

From caring comes courage. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#caring #comes

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#becomes #caring #heart #love #object

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#caring #how #instead #look #people

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#caring #facilities #great #great time #medical

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#balls #caring #demon #dickens #enormous

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. ↗

— William Glasser

#define #friendship #further #may #never

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#children #fairness #integrity #live #think