Quotes about Riches

Wealth is what you want, not money.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

Prosperity covers physical, spiritual and material wealth.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life?until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit but to be simply as rich as possible (I-II,30,4).

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

There are many things which are not needful. Riches are not needful. Health is not needful. Fine clothes are not needful. Noble friends are not needful. The favour of the world is not needful. Gifts and learning are not needful. Millions have reached heaven without these things. Thousands are reaching heaven every year without them. But no one ever reached heaven without "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.