Michelle Singletary > Quotes

“Act your wage.”
― Michelle Singletary

“You can have earthly riches, but you can still be poor spiritually.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“How many blessings are you missing because you spend every dime you make?”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Contrary to popular wisdom, you can’t pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Money cannot purchase what the heart desires. Chinese”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Look, tithing doesn’t make you broke. Living above your means (and spending your tithe) makes you broke.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“If all it took was money to be happy, then rich people wouldn’t have “issues.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“God “will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). That’s a promise you can rely on.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“You can’t keep living without a plan for your money. That’s like going on a cross-country trip to visit cities and towns you’ve never been to before, only you don’t have a roadmap.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“If we equate having stuff with contentment, then why aren’t we satisfied considering all the stuff we have?”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“TESTIMONY TIME: Day 4 I learned in the fast to never sacrifice the tithe. God will not only take care of you but reward you. Mellissa”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

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― Michelle Singletary, When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn’t

“Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun” (Eccl. 2:11).”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“It’s so easy to refuse to help others when you feel they were irresponsible. It’s tempting to pass judgment and think you’ve done better for yourself on your own. But don’t be so arrogant to think you got where you are by your own actions. Contrary to popular wisdom, you can’t pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“to increase my wealth I had to decrease my wants.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“A sense of entitlement could be getting in the way of God blessing you.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“To sum it up: Discipline + Self-denial = Cents for the Kingdom!”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Just think about this: If you were to die, how long would it take for people to go through your stuff? How many hours would they have to take off from their jobs to find and organize your personal property? Could they find your will? Where would they look for any instructions on your estate? Have you written down in a secure place the passwords to your computer or phone so friends and family can contact people if you pass away?”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom

“Joseph relied on his faith to save even when times were plentiful. Year after year he stored up grain. He never wavered from his task, even when the grain was overflowing.”
― Michelle Singletary, The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom