quotes tagged with 'wealth' 
"The cares of the world" (D&C 40:12), said the Lord, have taken many away from the real path, the real work, for the cares of the world quickly become our sole concern. Brigham's favorite word for Satan's trick was "decoy"---the work ethic decoys us away from the work we should be doing. Mammon is a jealous god and will not tolerate a competitor. But we get the idea that the only virtues are business virtues.
Being driven from city to city... is nothing compared to the danger of becoming rich and being hailed by outsiders as a first-class community.
I am afraid that many of us have been surfeited with flocks and herds and acres and barns and wealth and have begun to worship them as false gods, and they have power over us. Do we have more of these good things than our faith can stand?
It is maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy…
When possible the righteous should be friends, not enemies, with people in positions of authority or wealth, for someday those friends may assist the righteous and the kingdom of God.
Author: Elder Tsung-Ting Yang, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db0...Saved by richardkmiller in wealth authority friends schmoozing 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]Why should we labor this unpleasant point? Because the Book of Mormon labors it, for our special benefit. Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served halfheartedly and will suffer no rival--not even God: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matthew 6:24) In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. Above all, the Nephites like the Romans saw in it a mark of superiority and would do anything to get hold of it, for to them "money answereth all things." (Ecclesiastes 10:19) "Ye do always remember your riches," cried Samuel the Lamanite, ". . .unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities." (Helaman 13:22) Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive--the expression "costly apparel" occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it.
Author: Hugh Nibley , Source: Since Cumorah (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1970), pp. 393–94Saved by mlsscaress in priorities wealth modesty greed 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]'Tis wealth enough of joy for me
In summertime to simply be
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Source: ?Saved by mlsscaress in wealth joy presence summer 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]You say: "There are persons who have no money," and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
Author: Frederic Bastiat, Source: The Law, p. 31Saved by cboyack in government socialism society wealth equality taxes poverty plunder robbery treasury 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]Work less, wear less, eat less, and we shall be a great deal wiser, healthier, and wealthier people
Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses 12:122Saved by Doc in wealth wisdom materialism health property 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.
Author: Mohandas Ghandi, Source: unknownSaved by jarvie in christ wealth apostasy christianity materialism hypocrisy christians mommon 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Can't find a good quote on wealth? Try searching ScriptureTag!