If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

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.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

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?

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.