Quotes about Wealth
The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's sake and count it gain.
— John Piper
Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.
— John Piper
His beauty shines most brightly when treasured above health and wealth and life itself. Jesus knew this. He knew that suffering (whether small discomforts or dreadful torture) would be the path in this age for making him most visibly supreme.
— John Piper
But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.
— John Piper
You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.
— John Piper
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
— John Wesley
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
— John Wesley
Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can.
— John Wesley
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?
— John Wesley
One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it — and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.
— John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.
— John Wesley
Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
— John Wesley