Quotes About Abundance

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.

God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth.

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Read ecologically, the psalm [Ps 104] claims God's biophilia as a model for humanity's role and presence in the world. Delighting in creation has nothing to do with exploiting the world for the common greed. Rather, it has all to do with receiving the world's abundance for the common good, a sufficiency to be shared, not hoarded.

No subordination pertains in the garden. The adam's service to the garden is rooted in his kinship with the ground. Marriage, according to the Yahwist, is founded on the kindship intimacy of partnership and companionship (2:24). Life in the garden is one of fruitful work, abundance, and intimate companionship. In the garden there is neither fear nor shame, even before God. These are 'lacks' that are meant to endure. But, alas, they do not.

As God in Genesis 1 is no imperious warrior, so human beings are not conquerors of creation. The language of dominion lacks all sense of exploitation (1:26, 28). The hoarding of resources is implicitly forbidden in the account: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees are granted to animals and humans alike (1:30). Absent is any hint of the savage competition for resources. God's gift of sustenance is one of abundance, not scarcity, to be shared, not hoarded.

The God of Job exhibits biophilia: an 'innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity' [Edward O. Wilson] .... God chooses to approach wildlife not with a sword, but with a word of admiration and an open hand.

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Trees are green gold

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.