If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat. , Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur. ]
There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.