Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Money can actually make you holy.

Over the years I've learned being rich doesn't really have anything to do with money. That's being wealthy.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.