Worldly Gain Quotes

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

What has a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care