Our distress over money doesn’t come so much from a lack of it as from our belief that it can protect us. And yet, no bank account can be fat enough nor health potion strong enough to protect anyone. The world is a place of fear and danger. You can feel safe, but only in God. As our place in God’s heart dawns on us, we see money as one of the world’s more amusing preoccupations, and we become more generous with the little of it we have.
— Hugh Prather, Spiritual Notes to Myself, p. 25