Sidney Buchman Quotes

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

One of the things that evangelicals do really, really well is to make giving a joyous, social enterprise. Too often, the world sees giving as a burden, a sacrifice, when in fact it's more like an opportunity to help others and oneself at the same time.

Material things don't matter.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

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!

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.