prosperity on Happiness

Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Wisdom Song It is not too far a stretch to imagine an eager young person sitting at the feet of a well-seasoned elder and receiving the words of thi...

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy and truth endure forever. Thank the God of heaven, because his goodness endures forever. Let Israel now say that his mercy endures forever. ...

Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Ultimately it is economic prosperity which makes possible for billions of dollars to be devoted to the less fortunate.

Leader: Happy are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. People: For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. Leader: She is more preci...

That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand.

For what good would their prosperity do them if it did not provide them with the opportunity for good works?

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

People are usually better in adversity, than prosperity. A prosperous condition is not always so safe. True, it is more pleasing to the flesh - but it is not always best. In a prosperous state, there ...

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

Material success is no measure of spiritual health. Nor is apparent affluence any criterion of real godliness. And it is well for us that the Shepherd of our souls sees through this exterior and takes...

Praise to God, immortal praise. For the love that crowns our days; Bounteous Source of every joy. Let your praise our tongues employ. All to you, our God, we owe, Source whence all our blessings fl...

A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

For a hundred that can bear adversity there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.

The prosperity gospel is a theodicy, an explanation for the problem of evil. It is an answer to the questions that take our lives apart: Why do some people get healed and some people don’t? Why do som...

The soul is a spiritual thing, riches are of an earthly extract, and how can these fill a spiritual substance? How man does thirst after the world, but, alas, it falls short of his expectation. It can...

Almighty and most merciful Father, giver of every good and perfect gift, we give you thanks for blessing us so richly with your good Word and the holy Sacraments, and supplying so abundantly all our d...

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. And [w]hatever you do, work at it with all your h...

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord. On his law he medita...

Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.

Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.

Leader: Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful! People: Their delight is in the law of the LORD, an...

We are rich only through what we give: and poor only through what we refuse and keep.

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.