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Quotes about Wealth

Fasting will break poverty from your life.
— Jentezen Franklin
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
— Steve Jobs
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
— Watchman Nee
You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
— Myles Munroe
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every Christian should say: 'Have I wealth now? I should prepare for poverty. Have I health now? I should prepare for sickness.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.
— Jerry Bridges
We have somehow gotten the idea that the abundant life Jesus promised in John 10:10 means an abundance of health, wealth, and happiness. The idea of suffering for the sake of Christ is foreign to us. We have substituted the pursuit of happiness for the pursuit of holiness. We hesitate to sacrifice even our material possessions for His cause, let alone sacrificing our lives or the lives of our children upon the altar of His service.
— Jerry Bridges
We are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.
— Jerry Bridges
Oh, in Hong Kong the millionaires had scouts all through the country. All over China. It was just like the Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball team looking for ballplayers. As soon as a beautiful girl was located in any town or village their agents bought her and she was shipped in and trained and groomed and cared for.
— Ernest Hemingway