Quotes about Wealth

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I am debt-free in Jesus' name. I attract God-inspired ideas that produce great wealth. Opportunities and resources are headed my way now, in Jesus' name." Release the power of God into your pocket book.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

That is why I decline to recognize the mere multimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country; and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses his wealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often the case- why, then he does become an asset of real worth.

2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.