Riches Quotes - Page 38

• A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Humility, Temptation

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Treasure, Would Be, Speak

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• We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Heart, May

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.315, Bantam

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• I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

  Thomas Browne

  Adversity, Men, Alive

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• Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

  Anne Frank

  Heart, Long, Lost

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Blessing, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Tragedy

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• You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Powerful, Greed, Soul

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• Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rags, Stories, Done

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Dream, Kings, Love Is

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  Napoleon Hill

  Spiritual, Opposites, Two

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin

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• He won healing, He won deliverance, He won financial prosperity, mental prosperity, physical prosperity, family prosperity. He said He would meet my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and I am walking around and saying, "Yes, my needs are met according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Glory to God, I am coveting to the "need meter"; I am coveting to the I AM; Hallelujah! And I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway; when I read in the Bible where He says "I AM" I just smile and say "Yes, I AM too!"

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Healing, Upset

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• Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  War, Army, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

  John Hagee

  Broken, Poverty, News

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• Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

  Thomas Paine

  Mean, Oppression, Consequence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Feet, Looks

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• If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

  Thomas Browne

  Thinking, Generosity, Mind

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.261

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• Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pride, Forbidden

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• Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

  Solon

  Wicked, Gold, Virtue

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• Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

  Michelle Obama

  Interesting, Promise, Would Be

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• We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

  Pope Paul VI

  Islamic, Church, Like You

  Pope Paul VI, Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI) (1972). “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”

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• Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

  Richard Stearns

  Christian, Impact, Culture

  FaceBook post by Richard Stearns from Feb 20, 2012

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