To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.

Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.

Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.