"Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized……" — John Wimber
"Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people. Though repentance and the cleansing of forgiveness, we can rid ourselves of this burden and begin to let God transform our value system. Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others."
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48 Quotes by John Wimber
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
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— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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— Joan Didion
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned…
— Rich Mullins
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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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— Henri Lefebvre
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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