prosperity on Multiculturalism

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...

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...

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...

Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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. ...

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

Pastor: Oh God, you have been so gracious to us. You have given us so many wonderful gifts—they outnumber the stars in the sky! You have kept your promises to us, and you have been faithful! All: But ...

Pastor: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you...