A rich state formed by poor people is absurd! The state cannot build its prosperity on the poverty and poverty of its citizens.
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches (Phil. 4:19). We lay those words before our Lord and we say to Him very earnestly, And now, O Lord, do as You have said.
—Amy Carmichael
Our strange people – both strong and sad… Had heroes – and no one knew them… Always loved freedom – and always lived as a slave… Created the riches of songs – and does not know them…
A rich man has fifteen rooms for three people and he won’t let a poor man spend the night in his home and get warm.
A peasant has a fifteen-foot wide hut for seven people and he gladly takes in a stranger.
—Leo Tolstoy
People respect idle, rich people, and not those who do work inarguably useful to everyone: farmers, laborers.
—Leo Tolstoy
Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.
—John Wesley
No one can truly recognize the equality of people in life as well as children can. So how criminal it is for adults to teach them that there are kings, rich men & celebrities whom you must respect, and servants, workers and beggars whom you’re allowed to treat with condescension.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich.
—Laozi
Christ manifests and evidences his love to his saints in a *way of bounty*, – in that rich, plentiful provision he makes for them.
—John Owen
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures;
—Laozi
Talk to them, oh talk to them, even until midnight, of the riches of his all-sufficient grace.
—George Whitefield
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us… Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won’t need them anyway.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
—Plato
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
—Immanuel Kant
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
—Thomas Edison
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches (Phil. 4:19). We lay those words before our Lord and we say to Him very earnestly, And now, O Lord, do as You have said.
—Amy Carmichael
You know that in seeking happiness from riches, you are only striving to drink out of empty cups. And let them be painted and gilded ever so finely, they are empty still.
—John Wesley
They are most to be feared who become very rich in book learning but remain unlearned as Christians.
—Herman Bavinck
A truthful word is more powerful than popes, bishops, kings, and all the rich men on earth.
—Leo Tolstoy
A Christian is not poor, who is rich in grace; a man is not miserable, who has Christ for his portion.
William Gearing
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton