Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing we can afford is not adequate to the needs of our families. On the other hand, real poverty is - equally - when I have eaten so much that I am uncomfortable, and again, my thoughts center on food. Or when I have so many clothes that I have to spend a lot of mental energy making choices among them or finding ways to store them. Or when, regardless of my living conditions, I am discontent and brooding about how to have more. Real poverty is when material things are uppermost and pressing - whether because we have too few or too many of them. It is poverty, because the human mind and spirit are made for higher things, worthier pursuits.
Maxine HancockTags: wealth contentment poverty prosperity
One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
Jeffrey ArcherTags: wealth jeffrey-archer archer jeffrey
Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.
David A. ServantTags: truth wealth christianity poverty stewardship disneyland
When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.
David A. ServantTags: money wealth heaven hell stewardship radical reward
On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping over the ocean, which roared like a funeral mass and rolled up mountainous seas fringed with mourning silvery foam. The Devil, who from the rocks of Gibraltar, the stony gateway of two worlds, watched the ship vanish into night and storm, could hardly distinguish from behind the snow the innumerable fiery eyes of the ship. The Devil was as huge as a cliff, but the ship was even bigger, a many-storied, many-stacked giant, created by the arrogance of the New Man with his ancient heart.
Ivan BuninTags: wealth satan materialism culture
The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.
David P. GontarChrist, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all
human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new
ways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what;
and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses
us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the
bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.”
“And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?”
“I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poor
enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some
common sense!
Tags: wealth capitalism common-sense
But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.
Thomas MoreTags: wealth philosophy ethics-and-moral-philosophy
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.
M.F. MoonzajerWealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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