Quotes about Wealth

The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money.

The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money. Many have thought, "I want to live for God but I also want to earn enough money to live comfortably and retire someday." Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives. Jesus said, "You cannot serve both God and money"14 and "Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same. Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them — not success, wealth, fame, or pleasure. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

Ideas can be transmuted into cash through the power of definite purpose, plus definite plans.

Givers for God disarm the power of money.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.