Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

As you go through life, don’t let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.