Quotes About Riches

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

This was the crazy thing about wealth: You only had it if you didn't use it, but if you didn't use it, there was no value in having it.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Your net worth determines how valuable you are in the sight of men

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work

It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

There is nothing wrong in wanting money for purpose, however - perhaps to do some good in world - but be cautions about wanting riches for themselves

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

Giving is the business of the rich.

Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money.

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I want to live somewhere where it rains a lot and things grow furiously. I want to see the fruits of the earth multiply and all that sort of thing. I want to make provision for the future. I want to lay up riches on earth since I don't believe in heaven. Not material riches— I want green fields and fat cows and oak trees.

Prosperity covers physical, spiritual and material wealth.

People, I realized, were what I valued, and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life?until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit but to be simply as rich as possible (I-II,30,4).