#finances

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants. ↗

— Vera Wang

#finances #increasingly #sensitive #tastes #their

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#america #areas #assist #challenge #counseling

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#debt #finances #free #had #ministry

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#attention #because #command #education #finances

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#avoid #begins #clean #clean up #collapse

Balancing your money is the key to having enough. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#money #money-happiness #money-issues #money-management #money-tools

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? ↗

— John Wesley

#christianity #clothing #compassion #evangelism #faithfulness

Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances. ↗

— Marvin H. McIntyre

#money #sex #money

Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due. ↗

— Laird Barron

#money