Sermon quotes on wealth
Randy Alcorn
When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it’s not just because wealth might be lost; it’s because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions….Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy…. According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn’t simply wrong. It’s just plain stupid.
Alistair Begg
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
John Calvin
If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.
Oswald Chambers
The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.
Doris Day
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
Thomas Fuller
Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.
Jack Hyles
There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.
Woodrow Kroll
He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.
Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Andy Stanley
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not a byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Warren Wiersbe
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.
John Calvin
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
Comte De Rivarol
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
You can never be too rich or too thin. (for contrast).
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
John Calvin
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
D.L. Mayfield
The deep and dark tragedy of affluence is how it takes away curiosity, how it accepts the world as it is, how it conforms to the talking points of empire and Pharaohs.
Taken from The Myth of the American Dream by D.L. Mayfield Copyright (c) 2020 by D.L. Mayfield. Published by InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com
D.L. Mayfield
In 2008 the CEO of Walmart made as much in one hour as many of his full-time employees made in a year. Are some people really worth that much more than others? We would most likely say no, but our economy says otherwise. We talk about the immorality of the poor but never the wealthy, and this is very much on purpose.
Taken from The Myth of the American Dream by D.L. Mayfield Copyright (c) 2020 by D.L. Mayfield. Published by InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com
Max Gunther
The type of man most likely to grow very, very rich is the type of man least likely to enjoy it.
Thomas Watson
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 cannot fill the hiatus and longing of his soul.
John D. Rockefeller
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
Cotton Mather
Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.
Tertullian
And so it is that when a man walks along a road, the lighter he travels, the happier he is; equally, on this journey of life, a man is more blessed if he does not pant beneath a burden of riches.
Aristotle
For what good would their prosperity do them if it did not provide them with the opportunity for good works?
Nichomachean Ethics
John D. Rockefeller
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic
The last ten years, Americans have reported a steady decline in overall life satisfaction, despite the fact that average income per capita increased by 5.5 percent. We got richer, but became less happy.
Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream, Moody Publishers, 2019.
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