"Money often comes between men and God. Someone has said that you can take two small ten cent pieces, just two dimes, and shut out the view of a panoramic landscape. Go to the mountains and just hold two coins closely in front of your eyes--the mountains are still there, but you cannot see them at all because there is a dime shutting off the vision in each eye." It doesn’t take large quantities of money to come between us and God; just a little, placed in the wrong position, will effectively obscure our view.
--A. W. Tozer, I Talk Back to the Devil
“I’ve learned that we must hold everything loosely, because when I grip it tightly, it hurts when the Father pries my fingers loose and takes it from me.”
-- Corrie ten Boom, quoted from Memorable Scenes from OT Homes, Swindoll, p.29.