“Each year Americans spend $2 billion on cosmetics, $5 billion on perfumes and colognes, $20 billion on ice cream, $40 billion on lawn care. And $40 billion is what we spend each year on Christmas.
Do you know it would take just $20 billion to meet the food needs of the whole world? So when do we have enough? When do we have too much?”
Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. Philippians 4:11-12
Chris McDaniel in Igniting a Life of Generosity (Winchester, VA: EFCA Press, 2011) 29.