Martha Cosmidis posted on January 01, 2009 07:00
The new year arrived with fears of financial disaster both for our families, our church, our country and our world. What better focus could our prayers be than for FINANCIAL WISDOM.
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO.
(Matthew 28:6)
John Wesley on Money;;
“Give all you can without either hurting yourself or your neighbor, in soul or body, by applying hereto with unintermitted diligence, and with all the understanding which God has given you. Save all you can, by cutting off every expense which serves only to indulge foolish desire, to gratify either the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eye, or the pride of life. Waste nothing, living or dying, on sin or folly, whether for yourself or your children. And then, give all you can, or in other words give all you have to God”
“Much money does not imply much sense, neither does a good estate infer a good understanding.”
“You do not consider, money never stays with me, it would burn me if it did I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find a way into my heart.”
“Who can gain money without in some measure losing grace?”
And hear ye this, all you who have discovered the treasures which I am to leave behind me: if I leave behind me ten pounds (above my debts and the little arrears of my fellowship) you and all mankind bear witness against me that “I lived and died a thief and a robber.”
(Quotes from “The Quotable Mr. Wesley” by W. Stephen Gunter)