Quotes About Abundance

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So this is the law that always operates in the life of the Christian man: The longer he lives in Christ's discipleship the greater grows his poverty and indebtedness. But the riches and abundance of his Lord also grow greater and greater and make up for all he lacks. He must decrease, but his Lord must increase. And this he does far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.

I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Klag ikke under Stjernerne over Mangel paa lyse Punkter i dit Liv.

In the temple, high in place Stood Dame Fortune, fair of face, Holding Plutus, god of riches, In her fond and fickle arms. Horns of plenty at her feet Emptied half their contents sweet, And winged Cupid stood before her, Fascinated by her charms.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love for ever is to live for ever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love We want to live for ever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do you want to live tomorrow? It is because there is some one who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back. There is no other reason why we should live on than that we love and are beloved.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

It is easy to give; it is harder to make giving unnecessary.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

but in the sense of all having enough to completely satisfy all physical wants; of all having enough to get such an easy living that we could develop the better part of humanity.

wealth so abundant that there would be no cause for that harassing fear that sometimes paralyses even those who are not considered the poor, the fear that every man of us has probably felt, that if sickness should smite him, or if he should be taken away, those whom he loves better than his life would become charges upon charity.

There is enough and to spare. The trouble is that, in this mad struggle, we trample in the mire what has been provided in sufficiency for us all; trample it in the mire while we tear and rend each other.

The world is my lobster.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

The directive to "fill the earth" (Gen. 1:28) is not primarily a reproductive command. The "filling" of the earth is a cuh«re/activity.