Quotes about Wealth

When I was a kid, I'd always tell myself if I ever grew up to have money, I'd help even more people than I do when I didn't have any money.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

The price of wealth, historically, has been blood, annihilation, death, and despair.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

We need a global conversation because the Bible itself is global. God's Word has never been the exclusive property of the elite. God's Word is for the world. If anything, the Bible gives priority to the weak, the oppressed, and the poor and is tougher on privileged people who hold the reins of wealth and power but refuse to wield their advantages for the good of others.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.