“Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
“God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.”
Source: Towards a Better Life (1966), p. 8
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