#affluence

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#greatness #influence #inspirational #inspirational

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#affluenza #child-abuse #materialism #love

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God. ↗

— Jon Bloom

#christianity #love-of-money #poverty #temptation #love

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. ↗

— Ray Charles

#any #borrow #flour #give #got

Affluence means influence. ↗

— Jack London

#influence #means

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #hunger #irony #majority #minority

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #freedom #wealth #art

Affluence creates poverty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#creates #poverty

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life