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Riches: Quotations from Burning Words

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.— LORD BACON,

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.— MATTHEW HENRY

Get rich, if you will - you take great risks. But Christianity does not say to any man, "You must be worth only so much, extend your business only so far." It says, "Use your riches for the glory of God." If they once usurp His place, woe to you!— HERRICK JOHNSON

If by the consecration of my earthly possessions to some extent, I can make the Christian character practically more lovely, and illustrate, in my own case, that the highest enjoyments here are promoted by the free use of the good things intrusted to us, what so good use can I make of them?— AMOS LAWRENCE

Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.— R. S. STORRS

If you will be rich, you must be content to pay the price of falling into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in perdition; and if that price be too high to pay, then you must be content with the quiet valleys of existence, where alone it is well with us; kept out of the inheritance, but having instead God for your portion your all-sufficient and everlasting portion - peace and quietness and rest in Christ.— F. W. ROBERTSON

But Christian faith knows that wealth means responsibility, and that responsibility may come to mean only heavy arrears of sin.— H. P. LIDDON

Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase.— BURTON

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.— CHRISTIAN SCRIVER

Riches got by deceit, cheat no man so much as the getter. Riches bought with guile, God will pay for with vengeance. Riches got by fraud, are dug out of one's own heart, and destroy the mine. Unjust riches curse the owner in getting, in keeping, in transmitting. How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!— THOMAS BROOKS,

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's word? Yea, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health, or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom? Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest, Therefore our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom He gives nothing else.— MARTIN LUTHER

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.— ST. AUGUSTINE

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.— J. CAIRD