Biblical stewardship Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “Examples are few of men ruined by giving.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biblical stewardship Example Giving Men Ruined Stewardship
How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is very common to become so involved in giving to others that we fail to give to ourselves. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I've always been a giving man; it doesn't cost me anything and it's a pleasure to give what I know. — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord. — James L. Kraft Copy Share Image
[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image