You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Money – Possessions
Prosperity knits us to the world – CS Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that is “finding his place in it,” while really it is finding its place in him.
– CS Lewis –
God’s Promise – Elizabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
The Cross is needful – Samuel Rutherford
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Adversity vs Prosperity – Thomas Carlyle
For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.
– Thomas Carlyle –
Adversity has enriched the world – Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
Cars or Countries? – David Shibley
At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.
– David Shibley –
Blinded by Prosperity – John Calvin
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity… Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
– John Calvin –
Affliction or Prosperity – Dwight L. Moody
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– Dwight L. Moody –