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A fine cage won’t feed the bird.
We live in a jet-age. Many want to change this to get-age.
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you can pay for it.
God looks at the heart, not the hand–the giver, not the gift.
When you buy real estate, you soon learn nothing is dirt cheap.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
There are bigger things in life than money–bills.
The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of a cheap price is forgotten.
To be rich in God is better than to be rich in goods.
How much better to be honestly poor than questionably rich.
One could live on next to nothing if the neighbors would live on less.
Extravagance is a curse, and the extravagant human being is accursed.
Hardly anything is as upsetting as picking up a lunch check for someone who is too rich to carry money.
I’m far from being poor. I’m even farther from being rich.
One thing you can still get for a penny–your incorrect weight.
Prosperity keeps many people in debt.
Money is relative–the more money, the more relatives.
More money in your purse means greater obligation to God and man.
If we belong to Christ, it’s logical that everything we have belongs to Him.
When giving to God, we are just taking our hands off what belongs to Him.
Economy is often defined as a reduction in some other fellow’s salary.
It is said that if all the world’s economists were placed end to end, they wouldn’t reach a conclusion.
Material riches have no intrinsic value in the perspective of eternity.
How pleasant life would be if people with money used it the way they people who don’t have any say they would spend it if they had it.
The real measure of our wealth is what will be ours in eternity.
Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is poorer.
A living wage, it has been said, is a little more than you are making now.
April is the month when the green returns to the lawn, the lilac, and the IRS.
Some people never seem to do anything on time except buy.
The difference between you and other folks is that their money looks bigger and their trouble looks smaller.
Money is a universal provider for most everything but happiness and a universal passport to most any place but heaven.
It’s inflation when you have to be pretty well off just to be poor.
The saddest words of tongue or pen are “The car installment’s due again.”
Most of us spend our time like it wasn’t worth anything–and our money like it was.
Giving is a thermometer of our love.
When holdings are worthless, giving is worth more.
The secret of financial success is to spend what you have left over after saving, instead of saving what is left after spending.
Twenty-five years ago $150,000 bought a lot of house. Today it buys a lot.
Credit is what keeps you from knowing how far past broke you are.
Despite inflation, a penny for some people’s thoughts is still a fair price.
They say you can’t take it with you, and I’m sure that’s true. But my problem is to make it last until I’m ready to go.
Debt is slavery of the free.
Do not be sorry if your purse is half empty–be glad it is half full.
Some Christians suffer from cirrhosis of the giver.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Those who think money grows on trees are the ones who have a hard time getting out of the woods.
George Washington never told a lie–how come his picture is on a bill not worth a dollar?
Don’t try to cheat the Lord and call it economizing.
A Christian is one who does not have to consult his bank book to see how wealthy he really is.
No one is poor who by prayer can open the storehouse of God.
Your use of money shows what you think of God.
We would all be happy to pay as we go–if only we could finish paying for where we’ve been.
Making money last is no easier than making it first.
Total commitment could turn your “collection” into an “offering.”
Too many apply the principles of “saving grace” to their pocketbooks rather than their souls.
One way to keep your head above water is to avoid expensive dives.
Some folks have a craving for saving–others an urge to splurge.
If you want to improve your memory, loan money to others.
What you don’t owe won’t hurt you.
The best things in life may be free, but things money can buy aren’t bad either.
No one’s credit is as good as his money.
Life would be far more pleasant if you could make money first–then make it last.
Try to live within your income–it’s easier than living without one.
Running into debt isn’t nearly as bad as running into your creditors.
Some people are always in debt because they keep spending what their friends think they make.
You cannot take your money to heaven, but you can invest it for eternity.
Poverty is a state of mind often induced by a neighbor’s new car.
The nice thing about a gift of money is that it’s so easy to exchange.
Probably the real reason the dog remains man’s best friend is that neither borrows money from the other.
You are only poor when you want more than you have.
It used to be if you were “sound as a dollar” you were considered in perfect health–today, it means you are in bad shape.
A good way to save money: buy $2,000 worth of traveler’s checks for a vacation; then don’t go.
One good thing about living in the past–it’s cheaper.
The cost of living has gone up, but most people think it’s worth the price.
One thing everyone understands about money matters is that it does.
Credit cards tend to make us a debt-propelled people.
Misers aren’t much fun to live with, but they do make wonderful ancestors.
The person who can squeeze a dollar is usually the one who can stretch it.
Strange we call money dough–everyone knows dough sticks to your fingers.
We’re living in a land of plenty–everything we want costs plenty.
Some people give God a tenth–a tenth of what they ought to give.
Establish an emergency fund and you’ll be surprised how quickly an emergency develops.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we keep.
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
The place to “pass the buck” is in the offering.
If you cannot give, God understands–if you can give and won’t, God knows.
The poorest man is he whose only wealth is money.
People who used to live from payday to payday used to be called shiftless; now they are called good managers.
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.
Money–you can’t take it with you, but it is good to know there is a place where you can go without it.
Money is something that things run into and people run out of.
Just when you think you can make both ends meet, someone moves the ends.
Money may talk, but today’s dollar doesn’t have enough cents to say very much.
The definition of a living wage depends upon whether you are getting it or giving it.
If a fool and his money are soon parted, how come they got together in the first place?
Funny how the US makes money–while the rest of us earn it.
You should file your income tax, not chisel it.
No patient should leave the hospital until he’s strong enough to face the cashier.
Inflation is when the buck doesn’t stop anywhere.
Money talks but it never debates.
Everyone pays for their mistakes–Congress does it with our money.
It isn’t money that makes people work harder but appreciation.
A batch of credit cards fattens the wallet before it thins it.
A sign for taxpayers–the buck starts here.
In the war against inflation, there are no hawks or doves–just pigeons.
Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can’t take it with you–he’s trying to take it with him.
Definition of proof of purchase–an empty wallet.
Some people put “zero” in the church offering and complain that the church is too cold.
The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money
If your outgo is greater than your income, your upkeep will soon be your downfall.
With many people, money comes first, yet they can’t seem to make it last.
Money can’t buy happiness–unless you spend it on somebody else.
If money talks, why didn’t it cry for help a long time ago?
In the old days, big spenders spent their own money–not other people’s.
Money may not buy happiness, but it surely helps one look for it in more interesting places.
The best labor-saving device is an inheritance.
Inflation is when after you get money to buy something, it isn’t enough.
It’s costing Americans twice as much to live beyond their means as it did ten years ago.
Some people are certainly going to have a lot of nickels in heaven judging by their offerings.
The trouble is that our earning capacity doesn’t match our yearning capacity.
A dollar goes a long way now; you can carry it around for days without finding a thing to buy.
The “upper crust” is just a bunch of crumbs stuck together with their own dough.
One reason you can’t take it with you is that it goes before you do.
The dime isn’t entirely worthless; it makes a fairly good screwdriver when you need it.
People used to say, “It’s not the cost–it’s the upkeep.” Today it’s always both.
Prosperity provides enough credit to live beyond your means.
No amount of cash is ever petty.
Why do bills always arrive on time when everything else the postal service delivers comes late?
To paraphrase an old axion–what you owe won’t hurt you.
Do you remember way back when church collection plates get most of the money that service stations get on Sunday?
It used to be a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
No man is a success in life if he goes through life earning nothing but money.
Money will buy a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail.
Two ways to get rich–spend less than you make and make more than you spend.
Poverty of purpose is worse than poverty of purse.
Credit enables anybody to start at the bottom and go into the hole.
Two things ruin a church–loose living and tight giving.
He who has a fixed income is in a bad fix.
You cannot take your money with you, but you can send it ahead.
There are many who will give the Lord credit but never give him cash.
If the “love of money is the root of evil,” then pleasure is one of the limbs.
The person who gambles with his money will gamble with his soul.
The poorest man in the world is the man who has nothing but money.
I must be successful–I owe everyone money.
Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it.
The man who saves money nowadays isn’t a miser–he’s a wizard.
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
Counterfeit money is homemade bread.
God has enough money in the pockets of Christians to do everything He expects the church to do.
Giving is grace–not giving is a disgrace.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Anybody who thinks that money grows on trees is bound sooner or later to get caught out on a limb.
Credit, like dope, when used to excess leads to the gutter.
When you give till it hurts, it makes you feel good.
The rich may not live longer, but it certainly seems like it to their poor relatives.
The worst place to live is beyond one’s income.
Inflation is paying more and getting less.
Some people pay tithes to the waitress but tip God.
A poor man cannot afford to be lazy.
Many people spend their health for wealth, then try to spend their wealth for health.
We make a living by getting, but we make lives by giving.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d still point in all directions.
Money is tender when you have it and tough when you don’t.
The high price of meat today keeps many families in a perpetual stew.
The way you handle God’s money tests your maturity as a Christian.
A man doesn’t own his wealth–he owes it.
Economics is the art of satisfying infinite wants with limited resources.
It’s a small world; why does it cost so much to run it?
Money will not buy happiness, but it makes misery more comfortable.
Whether a boy ends up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends upon the chick he marries.
It’s easy to tell when you got a bargain–it doesn’t fit.
A recession is a period when sales go down and staff meetings go up.
If you think nobody cares you are alive, just miss a couple car or mortgage payments.
Beware: money can create hardening of the attitudes.
Just when you’ve gotten everything in the house automated, electricity is so expensive you can’t afford it.
The best place to spend your vacation is somewhere near your budget.
Early to bed, early to rise–till you make enough money to do otherwise.
A fool and his money are soon spotted.
With everything else going up these days, it’s a wonder the Lord hasn’t increased tithing to 15 percent.
It only take a little “jack” to life a car, but plenty of “jack” to keep it up.
Waste of wealth is sometimes retrieved; waste of health seldom; waste of time never.
Definition of prosperity: that period from Friday’s paycheck to Saturday’s shopping.
The trouble with some people who give till it hurts is that they are so sensitive to pain.
Most people don’t start economizing until they run out of money.
If people were to give according to their means, they would not act mean when asked to give.
The reason the dollar does not do as much today is that people don’t do as much for the dollar as they used to.
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself.
Give to God what’s right–not what’s left.
We should give according to our income, lest God make our income according to our giving.
Today–a dollar earned is a penny saved.
Buying what you do not need is an easy road to needing what you cannot buy.
People do not become rich by what they earn, but by what they save.
Money used to talk, then it whispered, now it just sneaks off.
Many men lay down their life trying to lay up money.
A vacation can put you in the pink, but it may leave you in the red.
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
Some people are not only pleasure bent–they are pleasure broke.
True wealth is the satisfaction of talent used in Christian service.
If you want to keep out of debt, you must earn more than you yearn.
Early settlers started this country, but it’s those who settle the first of the month who keep it going.
The two things most open to mistakes are the pocketbook and the tongue.
By the time you have saved for a nest egg, inflation turns it into chicken feed.
Maybe one reason budgets don’t work is that we only work five days a week but we spend money all seven.
Inflation has been defined as a process that allows one to live in a more expensive neighborhood without ever moving.
Some people think they are worth a lot money because they have it.
Fools can make money–it takes a wise man to know how to spend it.
Car sickness is the feeling you get every month when the payment falls due.
Bill collectors always come at the wrong time–when I’m home.
Justice often leans to the side of the purse hand.
Money talks. If it’s the dollar, it’s small talk.
A luxury is something you don’t need but you can’t do without.
A tither’s problem is seldom money.
If you spend lavishly on your own pleasure but complain that you have no money for the Lord, check to see who is your master.
The only thing that doesn’t become smaller when you contract it is debt.
He who serves God for money will serve the devil for bigger wages.
A tenth for God is more rewarding than a fifth for Satan.
People get into debt trying to keep up with those who already are.
Money has little value to its possessors unless it also has value to others.
What this country needs is a dollar that will not be as much elastic as it is adhesive.
A dollar will not go as far as it used to, but it will go faster.
Today is ready cash–spend it.
Something you can get for nothing is usually worth it.
A real estate sign read, “For sale: Oleo Acres–one of the less expensive spreads.”
A luxury becomes a necessity whenever you are able to make the down payment on it.
The average married couple has already spent next year’s salary and hasn’t paid this year’s bills.
We’re better off financially if we always act our wage.
The reason people put so many pennies in the offering is there is no smaller coins.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made all the money.
The kind of wealth most of us need isn’t dollars as much as sense.
A vacation is nothing but a sunburn at premium prices.
Keeping too much in your pocketbook may drive the Lord from your heart.
Money isn’t everything–sometimes it isn’t enough.
The most sensitive nerve in the body seems to be the one that runs to the pocketbook.
God does not look at the face of your check but at balance on the stub.
Strange how big a dollar looks when you give it to the church but how little when it goes for groceries.
There is an advantage in being poor–the doctor will cure you faster.
Banks call them “personal” loans because if you miss a payment they get personal about it.
Money ain’t everything–but it sure comes in handy when you lose your credit cards.
If you are stingy with a small income, it’s likely you’ll not be generous with a large one.
Riches are a blessing only to those who make them a blessing to others.
Some people give their mite, others give will all their might, and some don’t give who might.
Inflation is being broke with a lot of money in your pocket.
Inflation is the price we pay for those government benefits we thought were free.
People who live beyond their means should be given a lot of credit.
He made money the old-fashioned way–he inherited it.
Man makes counterfeit money–sometimes money makes counterfeir men.
The hand that gives is the hand that receives.
The only place you can find financial security is inside your income.
When we give our finances to God, we are not really giving to God; we are just releasing what already belongs to him.
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
Remember when you looked forward to receiving the salary you can’t live on today?
If you set the pattern for giving–would your church receive a token or a tithe?
Some people don’t think they are having a good time unless they are doing what they cannot afford.
What we give determines our wealth, not what we get.
Beware of the Christian with the open mouth and closed pocketbook.
When a man becomes rich, either God gains a partner or the man loses a soul.
Do your givin’ while you are livin’–then you’re knowin’ where it’s goin’.
Give until it feels good.
Most couples need two incomes these days; one for the principal and one for the interest..
How much money does it take for a rich person to be happy? Just a little more.
Depression is a time when you can’t spend money you don’t have.
It’s good to have things that money can buy, but better to have things money can’t buy.
Money can’t buy everything–including what it used to.
