The best quotes about money are found in the family of faith. Here are some of the all-time greatest quotes about money. These put us on notice about greed and don’t idolize poverty, either.
Some of these quotes are hundreds of years old. Still others are relatively new.
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Best Quotes About Money — Old School
“Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.”
—John Flavel
“It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.”
—Thomas Watson
“Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.”
—Martin Luther
“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again and ten times more.”
—John Bunyan
“Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.”
—Jerome
“He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.”
—Sir Roger L’Estrange
“I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.”
—William Wilberforce
“The world asks, “What does a man own?”; Christ asks, “How does he use it?”
— Andrew Murry
“Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
– C. S. Lewis
Best Quotes About Money — Chesterton
“There is no such thing as Success. That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.”
—G.K. Chesterton
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Best Quotes About Money From Christians
“When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy, and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!”
– John Wesley
God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.”
– Randy Alcorn
“There are two questions a steward needs to consider. 1. Who owns it? 2. How much is enough?”
–Ron Blue
All Christians are but God’s stewards. Everything we have is on loan from the Lord, entrusted to us for a while to use in serving Him.
– John MacArthur
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
— St. Augustine
“Steward, my advice to you: Live simply, give more, expect less.”
— E.G. “Jay” Link
“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs … and then cackles.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it’s a test.
– Francis Frangipane
The Best Quotes About Money 2.0
Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is “finding his place in it,” while really it is finding its place in him.
– C. S. Lewis
My take on tithing in America is that it’s a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It’s a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God’s trust fund—namely, all we have—for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?
— John Piper
You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [Christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.
– A. W. Tozer
Money is an odd subject in the Church. We have one side leaning towards the Doctrine of Greed and stating that it’s the blessing of God.
Others slip into a Monk-like existence and believe that self-denial will curry favor with God. We still have some deeper digging to do. Our hearts remain corrupted so we must deny ourselves, pick up crosses daily, and follow Jesus closely.