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I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.