Quotes about Profit

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Do not those who always seek consolation deserve to be called mercenaries? Do not those who always think of their own profit and gain prove that they love themselves rather than Christ? Where can a man be found who desires to serve God for nothing? Rarely indeed is a man so spiritual as to strip himself of all things. And who shall find a man so truly poor in spirit as to be free from every creature? His value is like that of things brought from the most distant lands.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.