“The heart of Christianity says that you haven’t given God anything until you have given God everything.
At 30, Florence Nightingale wrote in her diary, “I am thirty years of age, the age at which Christ began his mission. Now no more childish things, no more vain things. Now, Lord, let me think only of Thy will.”
Years later, near the end of her illustrious, heroic life, she was asked for her life’s secret, and she replied, “Well, I can only give one explanation. That is, I have kept nothing back from God.”
Florence Nightingale as recounted by Rick Ezell in “Two Sermons on Giving: The Heart and Soul of Christianity” (December 5, 2003).