When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
God gave me my money.
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
How rich, how happy is he who lives in poverty! He lives his days in wisdom, and sleeps in peace. Only he can be really happy, only he is so always!
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!
