prosperity on Immigration

Modern Language Version Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly ask that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of your favor and glad to do your will. Bles...

Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.

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.

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

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

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

Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to...

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

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...

This prayer may be offered with or without the congregational response. Due to its length, consider using two or more liturgists to lead the prayer. VOICE ONE: God of Creation, God of Life, In your j...

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...

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

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

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that...

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...

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

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

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

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. ...

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...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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

God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth' Lord be with those who work and worship The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to ti...

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

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...