Wealth Quote by John Calvin Download Open image ““luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blessings Of God Wealth
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury" by religious… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.” — Plato Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“There is no fortune greater than peace; there is no force greater than peace; there is no excellent tapas greater than peace; there is… — Muruganar Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You can criticize Trump and his wealth all day long, but you can't say he hasn't worked. You can say that about the Clintons. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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