Quotes about Gain

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:

The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

For such unjust acts of robbery lead automatically to vengeance and punishments, as Augustine's statement bears out. "Gain in the coffer," he says, "harm in the conscience." 55 No unjust gain is without most unjust harm.

It is my eager expectation and hope that . . . Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. . . . To depart and be with Christ . . . is far better. . . . I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. (Phil. 1:20—21, 23; 3:8)

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.