Quotes About Wealth

Definitions

"Wealth is investing yourself in that which yields the greatest benefit for yourself and others."

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. 2, chap. 3, p. 35

Short Quotes

"The rich may chase their dreams and dress themselves up, but inside they are living in poverty."

• The Redeemer (January 18, 2010)

"How many saints have arisen from the slums and the wretched conditions of humanity? Poverty is a better breeding ground for sainthood than wealth and affluence."

• What Happens After Death (July 11, 2008)

"The wealthy are far more deluded than the poor. They are far more distracted. They are far more seduced. They have far greater attachments to things of little value than do the poor."

• What Happens After Death (July 11, 2008)

"Here the poor are often more rich in spirit than the rich themselves, who have a great competing agenda differing from their primary purpose and function of being in the world."

"The power of force, the power of wealth, the attractions of beauty and charm ultimately cannot compete or compare with [God's Power and Presence]."

• God's Power and Presence in the World, April 23, 2011

"Has it not been curious to you that as your life becomes easier, you lose vitality?"

• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. 1, chap. 6, p. 75

Long Quotes

• "Your real wealth is discovered through the reclamation of Knowledge. It is not counted in how many assets, friends and pleasures you have acquired in life. All of these are constantly threatened and are easily lost. But the reclamation of Knowledge cannot be lost unless it is neglected or denied, and even then it will abide with you and go with you wherever you go."
• Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. 2, chap. 4, p. 43

"The highly educated, the highly sophisticated—people who indulge themselves in ideas and beliefs and social trends—have a great difficulty, whereas a simple poor person can respond more immediately. It is a curious thing that the more that people have and pretend to be, the more difficult it is for them to have this clarity, this simplicity, and this honesty."

• Integrity (April 6, 2011)

"People who give themselves to accumulating wealth and accumulating possessions find a great emptiness there, as if they were hollow on the inside. Now they become caretakers of their possessions, as if they were museum keepers of all the things they have collected in their lives, but as individuals they are hollow. There is nothing inspiring about them. There is nothing really important that has come out of them. They have not found their greater purpose in the world."

• The New Message for Young People (Aug 18, 2008)

"The richest amongst you must be prepared to take care of people, for there will be great human need in the future, greater than you have known, greater than that occurs even at the moment. Your richest person in the world should take care of thousands of people—feed them and provide for them. You have already destroyed their livelihood. It is impossible now for them to farm their land. Their local resources have been depleted, the land has been set to waste, so it is now your job to feed them and take care of them. That will be your job. And if you are to generate more wealth, it will be for this purpose."

• The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)

"There must be a great sharing here, a great compassion here. Here you do not throw the poor some pittance, some little excess of your wealth. For there will be poverty of a very grave nature as nations fail, as agriculture fails, as people cannot afford their food, as essential energy becomes rare and inaccessible to many people. Take 20% of your wealth and spend it on taking care of people. That is what the future will require if humanity is to have stability and if humanity is to avoid the ravages of war and deprivation, hunger and starvation."

• The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)

Directives

"The wealthy will have to take care of people."

• The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)

"If you are wealthy, you may need to feed a hundred people or five hundred people."

• The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)

"Your richest person in the world should take care of thousands of people—feed them and provide for them!"

• The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)