According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.

When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Our family has agreed to increase the percentage of what we give each year. Instead of increasing our standard of living, we're increasing our standard of giving.

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

Father, help these young people to see. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others. In power that channels itself into kindness, in a hand outstretched in love.