34 Quotes About Wealth

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.

The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in God, and our faith in God ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.

A defense in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Better to live in a hovel with a grain of grace, than to live in a palace without it; for what would the palace avail you in a thousand years?

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

Lest riches should be accounted evil in themselves, God sometimes gives them to the righteous; and lest they should be considered as the chief good, he frequently bestows them on the wicked. But they are more generally the portion of his enemies than his friends.

Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an encumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?

When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

God owns all the wealth in the world!

If you were to go about telling people that you had an inheritance worth a million worlds, and yet were out of temper for a trifle--they would not believe you.

Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.