Biblical Quote by Conrad Black Download Open image “Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.” — Conrad Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biblical Envied Has beens Money Time Wealthy
“It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“In respect to contributions for defraying the expences, money will doubtless be wanting; and suppose the rich were to embark a portion of that… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in… — Bible Copy Share Image
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“Constantly the Bible deals decisively with the inner spirit of slavery that an idolatrous attachment to wealth brings. “If riches increase, set not your… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry,… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid,… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy,… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Mother's Day is among the most appropriate to reflect on the true meaning of love. -I Corinthians 13:4-7 — Bible Copy Share Image
The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God,… — Mel White Copy Share Image