Quotes about Gain

DO NOT SEARCH FOR SECURITY in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list,

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul. 24

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

To live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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.'

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

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