Quotes about Scarcity

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

One must be careful to hold fast to the fact that God makes promises and defers the things promised, and that He tries us with a scarcity of available things in order to instruct us in faith in the promise and in order that this faith may be strengthened and may learn to believe God not only in prosperous times, when things are available, but also in adversity, when things are lacking.

The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.