Quotes About Wealth

The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's sake and count it gain.

Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.

His beauty shines most brightly when treasured above health and wealth and life itself. Jesus knew this. He knew that suffering (whether small discomforts or dreadful torture) would be the path in this age for making him most visibly supreme.

No se te ocurra pensar: "Esta riqueza es fruto de mi poder y de la fuerza de mis manos". 18 Recuerda al Señor tu Dios, porque es Él quien te da el poder para producir esa riqueza… (Dt 8:17-18).

Tal como dijo George Macdonald, ministro escocés del siglo XIX: Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.

Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.

But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

IDENTITY CLUE 4: A NATION OF WEALTH AND LUXURY Besides the foregoing prophecies which reveal the Daughter of Babylon will be a nation of great wealth, these verses further address the issue of great national wealth: "…because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass…" (Jeremiah 50:12(b)). "…a sword is upon her treasures…" (Jeremiah 50:37(b)) "You who…are rich in treasures…" (Jeremiah 51:13(a)).

This identity clue describes in detail a nation of luxurious wealth, but not a Church, even one with appreciable assets. Further, Revelation 18 describes the merchants of the world weeping over the loss of their major trading partner. Why will merchants weep and wail over the fall of a Church? The Daughter of Babylon is not a Church.

As the world's only remaining superpower, the United States can impose its will on nations, or peoples within those nations. America's voice is 'great', in large part, because of its great wealth and because the nation is the 'the hammer of the whole earth' (Jeremiah 50:23). Another aspect of its status as 'the great voice,' is America's use of its voice as the cultural and entertainment leader of the world.

Tens of millions of laborers across the world will be quickly thrown out of work, with all that will entail for their national economies. The world's financial superpower, which made the merchants of the world "rich through her wealth" (Revelation 18:19), will one day, in a day, no longer be buying their goods.

My wants are many, and, if told, would muster many a score; and were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

Money begets money.

I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn't you say?" "That's called alimony," I laughed.

My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten.

The GDP rises whenever money changes hands....The whole thing is reminiscent of Edward Abbey's reflection that "growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell.

Oxford Communiqué recommends mainly growth stocks

Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy."

The secret to money is so simple that most people completely miss it, because they're looking for some grand answer about this resource called money, which has so much power over them."

Debt is used to control the masses and it is those who stay out of its way and avoid at any cost that will find themselves beginning to succeed financially.

Spend less than what you earn and avoid debt no matter what.