Quotables
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"Fame is revenge against those who never believed in you." by Ruby Max (Comedian)
"Medieval Christendom was, very generally speaking, a sacral regime, and by its hold of the..." by Yves Congar
"Those who know not when they have enough, are poor."
"Over-achievers have several things in common: * They are frequently consumed by their careers. * They never..." by Jeff Comment
"Like over achievers, under-achievers also have some distinct traits: * They feel becoming a Christian exempts..." by Jeff Comment
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it in the nest." by J.G. Holland
"Mother Teresa defines her vow of poverty as "complete freedom from possessions... We are first..." by Mother Teresa
"Mohandas Gandhi was born to an illiterate woman in 1869. Gandhi means 'grocer.' Mahatma means..." by Mohandas Gandhi
"Because God cares for us as we are - struggling, falling repeatedly, detached - and..." by Pete Hammond
"Why do American Christians cherish painlessness & pleasure and feel that difficulty & weariness are..." by Pete Hammond
"The more compulsively materialist we become, the more desperate and neurotic we become in our..." by Alan Briskin
"Thus in the Paradise of Thieves, one of the characters declaims that 'to be clever..." by G.K. Chesterton
"'Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.'" by G.K. Chesterton
"After citing Oscar Wilde's maxim that 'a cynic is a man who knows the price..." by G.K. Chesterton
"A society in which consumption must be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going..." by Dorothy Sayers
"As Dom Helder Camera (Latin American Catholic priest) said, 'When you give food to the..." by Dom Helder Camera
"The top l% of our society owns 28% of all the wealth. And the top..." by John C. Raines and Donna C. Day-Lower
"John Wesley pushed the sensible formula "Make all you can, save all you can, give..." by Thomas Schmidt
"About half of the charitable dollars given (in the US) come from families with incomes..." by Domini, Pearne, and Rich
"Richard L. Greaves massive survey of the primary sources reveals that the Puritans 'asserted that..." by Leland Ryken
"Never does the Bible blame the poor for their poverty. It is the rich who..." by Wm. Willimon
"Status gained by negation of someone else is a mentality rooted in your insecurities. This..." by Pete Hammond
"[I] experienced the claustrophobia of poverty." by Christopher Darden
"A syndicated columnist wrote that Americans 'have more money and less virtue. We have more..." by John Ashcroft
"The scandal of businesslike priests, of collective wealth, the lack of a sense of responsibility..." by Dorothy Day
"It remains an experience of inestimable value that for once we have learned to see..." by Eberhard Bethge, Bonheoffer
"Everything people say, own or do reflects a choice they have made. It is wise..." by Pete Hammond
"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production..." by Dorothy L. Sayers
"Is that drive for more all bad? Weren't we taught to better ourselves and that..." by Diane Booher
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one and Helen Keller is the other." by Irma Bombeck
"Israel's exile to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar's rule saved the Hebrew people from idolatry - they..." by Dennis Kinlaw
"I asked God for strength, that I might achieve - I was made weak, that..."
"A gentleman is the next best character after a Christian, and the latter includes the..." by Basil Miller
"The success of a consumer culture depends on people loving money more than life." by John Leax
"More people spend time making good money than making good lives; bless them, they get..." by John Leax
"One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be..." by C.S. Lewis
"Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and..." by C.S. Lewis
"Money is a stupid measure of achievement but unfortunately it is the only universal measure..." by Charles Steinmetz
"As the highest marginal tax rate plummeted from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1988,..."
"Money is the long hair of the 80's." by Elizabeth Ashley
"A lion met a tiger as they drank beside the pool. Said the tiger, "Tell..."
"Even as Jehovah chose to shock Israel into reality through the Egyptian and Babylonian captivities,..." by Pete Hammond
"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you..." by Henrik Ibsen
"We admire successful people but we don't feel close to them unless we know their..." by D. Rumsford
"There's a militancy about self indulgence now, a strong sense of entitlement....(In a consumer culture..." by Faith Popcorn
"The things that we love tell us what we are." by St. Thomas Aquinas
"Money is a mutual obligation, anchoring psyche to the world. To be free from the..." by R. Grossman
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than..."
"Andrew Carnegie again: "There are but three modes in which surplus wealth can be disposed..." by Andrew Carnegie
"Men would contrive a hierarchy somehow - put houses on hills instead of flatlands, dress..." by Laurence Shames
"In the 1950s...spending more, relaxing more, even wasting more - these, in their way, were..." by Laurence Shames
"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That with the squalid cash interpretation put on..." by Laurence Shames
"Success lost its reference to accomplishment, to high intent, and was recognized only in terms..." by Laurence Shames
"As adolescence contracted, there was less leisure and less disinterested learning. Lives zinged by too..." by Laurence Shames
"Through the 1980's, the wealthy became ever more visible but ever less typical; the unwealthy..." by Laurence Shames
"Our faith becomes practical when it is expressed in two books: the date book and..." by Elton Trueblood
"It is only when the rich are sick that they feel the impotence of wealth." by Charles Caleb Colton
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." by Kin Hubbard
"The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest..." by Francois Fenelon
"If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, the fertilizer is..." by Pete Hammond
"Appearances are deceiving - The dollar bill looks exactly as it did a generation ago." by Margot Fonteyn
"The minute some people open their mouths you know they are going to be successful...." by Margot Fonteyn
"We live in a superficial and frivolous age: of the 730 million books printed in..."
"A rich but miserly man who was unloved in his community went to a wise..."
"The sandwich dates back to the time when man discovered he could not live by..."
"Fred Smith again observes that "the drive for success is really the distorted pursuit of..." by Fred Smith
"[Regarding luxury and products], Shames says "the distance between the checkout counter and the garbage..." by Laurence Shames
"The average wife still earns less than $l4,000 a year, while the average husband earns..."
"In l987 there were l38 million privately owned cars on the road - more than..."
"George Weber prays that the day will soon come when "each individual can be proud..." by George Gallup Jr.
"American women pay the bills....6l% of women with checking accounts say they have the primary..."
"Cultures with rising hopes, ambitious political and social expectations, tend to occupy themselves with revolutions,..." by Philip Lee
"In medieval Europe the government learned they were out of silver and could not make..." by Pastor Roy Blackwood
"Money does not bring peace of mind. Actually, money brings about more problems. Everything is..." by Sylvester Stallone
"For some of the tenants at 100 Central Park South, hardship is not being able..." by Donald Trump
"Money and violence go together: Those who have made money their god must make security..." by Dorothee Soelle
"Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. It..." by Mohammed
"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption a way of life, that we..." by Victor Lebow
"Whenever I get confused about my money and how to deal with it, I get..." by “Rob Stoner” a pseudonym for a source
"In our time the struggle of mercy is... not against rigid and inflexible morality, but..." by Thomas Merton
"Andrew Carnegie philosophized: ‘Man must have an idol. The amassing of wealth is one of..." by Thomas V DiBacco
"One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be..." by C.S. Lewis
"Money makes a difference. If your are rich and have two jobs, you have diversified..." by Unknown
"...Do you know that you’ve almost insulted me?....Your mind is so closed to my work,..." by Dan Cook
"The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he..." by C.S. Lewis
"In the 1980's...people gave up the luxury of time in favor for the luxury of..." by Laurence Shames
"In 1959, John F. Kennedy running for the presidential nomination said: ‘We have grown soft..." by Laurence Shames
"As early as 1953, an investment banker...boasted that ‘we have mastered production but we have..." by Laurence Shames
"James Rouse, builder of many restored downtowns like his hometown of Baltimore said, ‘What can..."
"There’s a militancy about self indulgence now, a strong sense of entitlement....(In a consumer culture..." by Faith Popcorn
"Profit is a means in God’s world to be used and invested , not an..." by Bill Pollard
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