Quotes on Wealth & Poverty
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas, quoted in Catholic Digest June, 1992
“Those who know not when they have enough, are poor.”
- Japanese proverb, Catholic Reader, 11/95
“Fame is revenge against those who never believed in you.”
- Ruby Max (Comedian) – Source: London Daily Mail, 1991
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it in the nest.”
- J.G. Holland – Source: in The Great American Bathroom Book, 1992, page 3-A1
“Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.”
- St. Francis of Assisi, GKC, pg. 84-85
“The drive for success is really the distorted pursuit of significance.”
- Fred Smith, Conversation at CT Board meeting
“The contented man is never poor while the discontented is never rich.”
- anonymous
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“Profit is a means in God’s world to be used and invested , not an end to be worshiped.”
- Bill Pollard in The Soul of The Firm, Harper Business / Zondervan, 1996, pg. 20
“Our faith becomes practical when it is expressed in two books: the date book and the check book.”
- Elton Trueblood – Source: in LEADERSHIP, Winter, 1990, pg. 89.
“Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business talking about ‘misery.’”
- The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greene, 1/31/1917, pg 161
“About half of the charitable dollars given (in the US) come from families with incomes of under $25,000. Families with incomes of $5000 or less gave an average of 5% of their incomes in l982. That same year families with incomes of over $50,000 gave [only] l.32%”
- Domini, Pearne, and Rich – Source: The Challenges of Wealth
“I asked God for strength, that I might achieve – I was made weak, that I might learn to humbly obey. I asked God for help that I might do greater things – I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy – I was given poverty, that I might be wise… I got nothing I asked for – but everything I had hoped for. Despite myself, my prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”
- an anonymous soldier of the confederacy
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