“Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.” — Thomas Fuller (1608-61), English clergyman and writer

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams (1722-1803), American patriot and founding father

“It’s a law of life: the tyranny of things.” — Randy C. Alcorn, ministry leader and author

“The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ’s return, both of which are imminent.” — Randy C. Alcorn, ministry leader and author

“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” — Anonymous

“Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.” — Lord Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and scientist

“We can either use our money to serve our God or our god will be our money.” — Denny & Leesa Bellesi, from Kingdom Assignment

“I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty dollar.” — Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), American industrialist and philanthropist

“It’s OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.” — S. Truett Cathy (1921-), Chik-fil-A restaurants founder

“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.” — Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.” — G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English journalist, poet and novelist

“What I possess, God owns.” — Howard Dayton, co-founder of Crown Financial Ministries

“Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher and poet

“He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American inventor, statesman

“I find all this money a considerable burden.” — J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), American oil industrialist

“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.” — Billy Graham (1918-), American evangelist

“Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.” — Billy Graham (1918-), American evangelist

“I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.” — Selwyn Hughes, English pastor and author

“Remember this—you can’t serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.” — Selwyn Hughes, English pastor and author

“A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.” — E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), missionary and evangelist

“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.” — John F. Kennedy (1917-63), 35th U.S. president

“The world asks, ‘What does a man own?’ Christ asks, ‘How does he use it?’ ” — Andrew Murray (1828-1917), South African evangelist and writer

“I’ve just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.” — Aristotle Onassis (1906-75), Greek shipowner and financier

“Out of the freedom from worry that God’s generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.” — John Piper (1946-), pastor and author

“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.” — William S. Plumer, Christian author

“If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.” — Polycarp (ca. 70-ca. 156), bishop of Smyrna

“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.” — Ayn Rand (1905-82), American author and philosopher

“I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.” — Jules Renard (1864-1910), French writer

“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” — Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.), Roman philosopher and poet

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” — Socrates (469-399 B.C.), Greek philosopher

“We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.” — John R.W. Stott (1921-), English pastor and evangelist

“Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment—‘Thou shalt not covet’—recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?” — Margaret Thatcher (1925-), British prime minister²

“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 its way into my heart.” — John Wesley (1703-91), English evangelist and founder of Methodism