Quotes about Wealthy
All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
— Revelation 18:3
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
I have often wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the Eight Beatitudes on a courthouse lawn. Then I realize that the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus would probably not be very good for any war, any macho worldview, the wealthy, or our consumer economy.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.
— Matthew 27:57
quite compelling its admonition to use wealth as a means to be generous and not just as an end in itself.
— Mike Huckabee
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
— Isaiah 5:17
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
— George Bernard Shaw
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.
— John Piper
In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.
— Emily Bronte
I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.
— Hillary Clinton
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
— Bill Gates