It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.