MONEY Money may not buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more interesting places.
Sermon Illustrations
INCREDIBLE WEALTH is any income that's at least $5,000 a year more than what your wife's sister's husband makes. Funny, Funny World
MONEY can't buy love, but it does put you in a great position for negotiating. Funny, Funny World
GAMBLING Some people are willing to gamble on just about anything. Some of them, for instance, are saving money on the risky premise that it may be worth something some day. Funny, Funny World
MONEY isn't everything, but it's a sure-fire way not to lose touch with your kids. Funny, Funny World
INFLATION Sign on a water cooler at Hughes Aircraft in Torrance: "Due to inflation and other costs, the water in this cooler is twice as free as it used to be." Funny, Funny World
MONEY AND EXPERIENCE When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money, and the person with the money will get some experience. Leonard Lauder, CEO of…
I.R.S. POLICY When you consider the taxes the average person has to pay, the IRS seems to have a policy of "handicap the hired." Funny, Funny World
GETTING RICH It's easy to get rich. All you have to do is invent something that costs a dime to make, sells for a dollar and is habit forming. Funny, Funny World
GOD'S DESIGN God divided the hands into fingers so that money could slip through. Martin Luther
TAXATION If Patrick Henry thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation. Chestnuts
LOANS Lending money to a friend is dangerous -- it could damage his memory. Funny, Funny World
DIFFERENT DREAMS Two young medical students at the University of Michigan had just finished their classes one day in the spring of 1883. It was a time of great hope and anticipation for them: in…
THE THINGS THAT MOTIVATE I got a phone call one day from a friend who owns an Indian jewelry store in Arizona. Something fascinating had just happened, and she thought that, as a psychologist, I…
A STRATEGY FOR MOTIVATION TO GOOD WORKS In 1784 Benjamin Franklin wrote the following letter to a man named Benjamin Webb: Dear Sir: Your situation grieves me and I send you herewith a banknote for…
SOUND FAMILIAR? "The budget should be balanced. The treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officials should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest…
AMAZING, BUT TRUE Professor Lowell of Harvard University was speaking many years ago to a gathering on Columbus Day. He said that there were three profound things about Christopher Columbus' discovery of America: First, when…
AND THEN BACK TO BUSINESS Martin Marty calls this one of the saddest sentences in modern times. It occurs in a journal kept by America's once-richest man, land- investor, oil magnate J. Paul Getty: "He…
THE THREE THIEVES Zig Ziglar, well-known motivational speaker tells the following story of three thieves: I'd like to introduce you to three thieves that I know. The first thief is a man named Emanuel Nenger.…
A CHRISTMAS REALIST A little boy paid a visit to Santa in the department store and presented him with a list of requests: a bicycle, a train, a bat and ball, a rocket set, and…
