Quotes about Interest
The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.
- Oswald Chambers
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only
- Oswald Chambers
Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or is it something in which the spirit that is diametrically opposed to Jesus is interested?
- Oswald Chambers
The DNA of sin is selfishness (see 1 Cor. 5:15). Sin turns all of us in on ourselves. It reduces our circle of hopes and concerns to things that touch and involve us. It makes us all focused on and driven by our wants, needs, and feelings. Sin can so fill our eyes with our needs that we become functionally blind to the needs of others. We can be so focused on our interest that we have little interest in the interest of others.
- Paul David Tripp
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Exodus 22:25
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- Leviticus 25:36
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
- Leviticus 25:37
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 23:20
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Proverbs 28:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:8
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Ezekiel 18:13