Quotes about Borrowing
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.
- Exodus 22:14
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- Exodus 22:26
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
- Leviticus 25:37
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
- Deuteronomy 24:11
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- Deuteronomy 28:12
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:44
Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
- Nehemiah 5:4
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
- Psalm 37:21
It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
- John Milton
This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures.
- J. Oswald Sanders