Quotes about Scarcity

The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

People who give with no strings attached almost always have an abundance mentality. They are generous because they believe that if they give, they will not run out of resources. Pastor and former college professor Henri Nouwen states, "When we refrain from giving, with a scarcity mentality, the little we have will become less. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.