Quotes about Riches
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
— Teresa of Avila
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
— John Henry Newman
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
— Philip James Bailey
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
— Abraham Kuyper
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
— Akiva ben Joseph
All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.
— Ellen White
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise,—and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.
— Ray Blackston
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
— Joseph Addison
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain