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Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.
- Carolyn Custis James
The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.
- Carolyn Custis James
We need a global conversation because the Bible itself is global. God's Word has never been the exclusive property of the elite. God's Word is for the world. If anything, the Bible gives priority to the weak, the oppressed, and the poor and is tougher on privileged people who hold the reins of wealth and power but refuse to wield their advantages for the good of others.
- Carolyn Custis James
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
- George W. Bush
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
- George Washington
The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.
- George Weigel
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- George Bernard Shaw
He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.
- Anonymous
A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
- Anonymous
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
- Samuel Johnson
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
- Mark Twain