allow no service to remain unrecompensed; and work done for the poor and needy shall win its wage, not of debt, but of grace” (MTP 31:84).
16. “To get, we must give.”
“Let us learn then, from the analogy of nature, the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy” (MTP 11: 230).
17. “The cheerful giver is marching to the music of the spheres.”
“There is nothing in this world but lives by giving, except a covetous man, and such a man is a piece of grit in the machinery; he is out of gear with the universe. . . . But the cheerful giver is marching to the music of the spheres. He is in order with God’s great natural laws, and God therefore loveth him, since he sees his own work in him” (MTP 14:571).
18. “Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hand.”
“Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hand. The two mites of the widow were, in Christ’s eyes, worth more than all the other money cast into the treasury” (MTP 37:625).
19. “A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.”
“A thrifty house-wife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth. Bless their hearts, what should we do without them?” (John Ploughman’s Talk, 152)