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Quotes About Riches

The poor person dreams of having a million dollars; the rich person dreams of adding another million dollars to the millions he or she already has. As a result, accumulations of money block the real flow of wealth and poison nearly every aspect of our collective lives. In such an environment, it can be difficult to remember that money is simply a tool for managing the flow of real wealth among people...
~ John Michael Greer
Let none admireThat riches grow in hell; that soil may bestDeserve the precious bane.
~ John Milton
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fellFrom heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughtsWere always downward bent, admiring moreThe riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,Than aught divine or holy else enjoyedIn vision beatific.
~ John Milton
The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people — than if they needed no forgiveness at all.
~ John Newton
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
~ John Osteen
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
~ John Piper
God made us alive and secured us in Christ so that he could make us the beneficiaries of everlasting kindness from infinite riches of grace. This is not because we are worthy. Quite the contrary, it is to show the infinite measure of his worth.
~ John Piper
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.
~ John Piper
Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.
~ John Piper
Money begets money.
~ John Ray
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
~ John Ray
He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.
~ John Selden
It is impossible for any mind to comprehend all the richness and greatness of even one promise of God.
~ Ellen G. White
What were leaky roofs and cold hands and gray days and rock as compared with such riches of freedom and aloneness.
~ Elliott Merrick
Consequently, there are produced very valiant fighters… not softened by any overindulgence in fruits… the Danes… are just as poor… Poverty has forced them thus to go all over the world and from piratical raids they bring home in great abundance the riches of the lands.
~ Else Roesdahl
God's plan for you is concise. He (God) plans to transform all your so seemed failure into enviable success, your disappointments into appointments, your setbacks into comebacks, your misfortunes into fortunes, your disgrace into grace, your mess into mercy, your obscruity into fame and your poverty into riches. Oh! Yes, that's just what he (God) intends to do/achieve for you eventually . And he can/will do all that and even beyond all that.
~ Emeasoba George
Hard work is advisable and encouraging too. But, mind you it does not really make anybody rich. Yes! it is God's blessing that actually makes a person rich. Hard work adds less or nothing to it (Proverbs 10:22). -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Hope is synonymous with expectation. In the sense that, whatever you earnestly expect is what you will experience. So what has been your hope all these while? Whatever/however, you've got to hope for riches never poverty, hope for success never failure, hope for greatness never commonness, hope for salvation never damnation.
~ Emeasoba George
Never pray for riches/fame/greatness. Just pray for God's grace, wisdom and insight. For, if God gives you all that. Riches, fame and greatness will be/become your fate sooner or later.
~ Emeasoba George
Professing God's blessing is better than saying thanks to anyone. That is to say, it is more advantageous to tell someone God bless him or her rather than to tell him or her thank you. Yes! because God's blessing is incomparable. Besides that, it is God's blessing that makes anybody (truly) rich, neither does toiling increase it. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
There is nothing which you have presently that's actually an entitlement to you. I mean, your riches, wealth, fame, qualifications, job, career, business, houses, cars, husband, wife, children and stuffs like that are all end-results of God's infinite grace and mercy. So come on, show gratitude to God for his infinite mercy and grace upon your life.
~ Emeasoba George
There is nothing which you have presently that's actually an entitlement to you. I mean, your riches/wealth/fame/qualifications/job/career/business/houses/cars/husband/wife/children and what have you? are all end results of God's infinite grace/mercy. So come on, show gratitude to God for his infinite mercy/grace upon your life.
~ Emeasoba George
There is nothing you have presently that is really an entitlement to you. Yes! you heard me right as ever, your riches, wealth, fame, qualifications, job, career, business, houses, cars, husband, wife, children and stuffs like that are all end results or end products of God's infinite Grace and mercy. So come on, show gratitude to God for his infinite mercy and grace upon your life. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
True riches, success, greatness, fame and destiny are all acts of God i.e. all of the above is only decided or presided over and given by God to you/us. Thus, appreciate God for all of them.
~ Emeasoba George