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Quotes About Abundance

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
~ Brennan Manning
If we let the Lion of Judah run loose as Lord of our lives, He will not want us to be poor, broken or sad. Yet He may allow it, knowing that in these conditions we are more likely to let Him make us rich, whole and happy.
~ Brennan Manning
grace abounded more because I could find it in the darkness as much as in the light.
~ Brennan Manning
The thought that my dear Heavenly Father is always near, giving me abundantly of all those things, which truly enrich life and make it sweet and beautiful, makes every deprivation seem of little moment compared with the countless blessings I enjoy.
~ Helen Keller
Every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. What fascinates me so much is that every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
~ Henri Nouwen
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
~ Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man's riches are based on what he can do without.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures.
~ Henry David Thoreau
for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;
~ Henry David Thoreau
When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.
~ Henry David Thoreau
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My life flows with a deeper current, no longer as a shallow and brawling stream, parched and shrunken by the summer heats. My heart leaps into my mouth at the sound of the wind in the woods. I, whose life was but yesterday so desultory and shallow, suddenly recover my spirits, my spirituality, through my hearing. For joy I could embrace the earth ... I have occasion to be grateful for the flood of life that is flowing over me. I am not so poor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I take all these walks to every point of the compass, and it is always harvest-time with me. I am always gathering my crop from these woods and fields and waters, and no man is in my way or interferes with me. My crop is not their crop. I am not gathering beans and corn. Do they think there are no fruits but such as these?
~ Henry David Thoreau