Quotes about Riches

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. (vv. 12—14)

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. That is true enough in a sense, but your lungs are thinking about the air if you are not. And so it is with your rich people: they may not be thinking of money, but they're breathing it all the while; take them into another element and see how they squirm and gasp!

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his fmight, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24But glet him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, 10judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

often the rich, the religious, and the self-sufficient know nothing about self-surrender. Jesus