Zitat des Tages über Reichtümer / Riches:
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
A learned man has always riches in himself.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.