Billy Graham Quotes
16 quotes from Billy Graham on investing and motivation.
On investing
Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.
Money takes our minds off God.
Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.
God does not need our money. He owns everything, including "our" money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?
Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.
There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9: 27 KJV].
Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.
The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.
Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man's heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
There are two ways of being rich-have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.
Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.
The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
On motivation
A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.