“Estaba feliz de haber perdido todo.”
“El dinero lo aburría, porque siempre lo había tenido.”
“Kuna mafanikio ya aina mbili hapa duniani: Mafanikio ya Shetani na mafanikio ya Mungu. Mafanikio ya Shetani ni rahisi kupata na ni ya kitumwa. Mafanikio ya Mungu ni magumu kupata lakini ni ya hakika. Mungu akikubariki, pesa inaongezeka kama inavyoongezeka saa.”
“El dinero nunca me ha interesado, Pedro, en eso me parezco a Indiana. Me temo que juntos terminaríamos convertidos en una pareja de mendigos.”
“Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.”
“Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.”
“The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.”
“We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: “It is appointed unto men once to die” [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].”
“The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.”
“Money takes our minds off God.”
“Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.”
“Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They’ve failed because they’ve been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.”
“If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.”
“Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.”
“There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.”
“There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.”
“Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.”