“The English statesman, Wilberforce, gave generously to the Lord’s work. In 1801, a year of tragic unemployment, his gifts to the poor exceeded his income by 3,000 pounds. He disposed of property, stopped luxuries, lived simply, so that he rarely gave less than a quarter of his income to the poor, besides liberal gifts to other benevolent causes both in England and abroad. You can live on less when you have more to live for.”
Leslie B. Flynn in Your God and Your Gold (Williamsport, PA: Hearthstone, 1973) 60.