 [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity. Author: John Flavel |
| It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn. Author: Adrian Rogers |
| Don't settle for fast food when you can feast at God's banquet. Author: Woodrow Kroll |
| True service for the Lord will bring us material loss not gain. The profit will only be spiritual. That which brings material gain, on the other hand, belongs to Babylon and not to the heavenly Jerusalem. Author: Zac Poonen |
| The world may offer you benefits for living for self, but choose the eternal benefits of God by living for Him. Author: Paul Chappell |
| A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. Author: Jack Hyles |
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| This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people. Author: Lee Roberson |
| 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. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand. Author: Charles Spurgeon
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| Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity. Author: John Calvin |
| Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. Author: John Calvin |
