Wealthspirations and Scriptures

• “Accumulating wealth—as distinct from just making a big income—is the key to your financial independence.  It gives you control over assets, power to help shape the corporate and political landscape, and the ability to ensure a prosperous future for your children and their heirs…"
  --Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
• “If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier.  You are just living high.”
  --Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
  --Benjamin Franklin
• I owe, I owe, so it’s off to work I go.
  --Bumper sticker on a 1972 Chevy
• “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
  --Oscar Wilde
• “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
  --Henry David Thoreau
• “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
  --Ayn Rand
• “So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”
  --A. J. Reb Materi
• “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
  --Anne Bradstreet
• “Our true wealth is the good we do in this world.  None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.”
  --Mohammed
• “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.  Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.  So, spread your love everywhere you go.
  --Mother Teresa
• “Life begets life.  Energy becomes energy.  It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
  --Sarah Bernhardt
• “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
  --Winston Churchill
• “No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger.  It is the heart that makes a man rich.  He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
  --Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. Psalm 1:1-3 (NKJ)

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; and let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. Psalm 35:27 (NKJ)

And you shall remember the Lord thy God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which he swore to fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18 (NKJ) 

Wealth and honor come from You; and You are the ruler of all things. In Your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 1 Chronicles 29:12 (NIV)

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. 1 Samuel 2:7-8 (NIV) 

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and He adds no trouble to it. Proverbs 10:22 (NIV) 

Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God. Ecclesiastes 5:19 (NIV)

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. Isaiah 45:3 (NIV)

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 9:11 (NIV) 

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 2 Corinthians 9:6 (NIV)

However, there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, He will richly bless you. Deuteronomy 15:4 (NIV) 

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 (NIV) 

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17 (NIV)

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

Wealth gained by dishonestly will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. Proverbs 13:11 (NKJ)

Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life. Proverbs 22:4 (NIV)