prosperity

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3d1fdfe	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.	adversity appreciation hardship inspirational life prosperity seasons spring winter	Anne Bradstreet
338a657	God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.	compassion evangelism giving gospel greed hunger need prosperity sharing starvation stewardship	John Piper
46470da	Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.	louisa-may-alcott prosperity	Louisa May Alcott
5bf7601	The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcely believe what was happening to them. Labor had been so long thought to be the natural and inevitable consequence of necessity and poverty that most people still associated it with slavery and servitude. Therefore any possibility of oppression, any threat to the colonists' hard earned prosperity, any hint of reducing them to the povery of other nations, was especially frightening; for it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.	labor prosperity radicalism	Gordon S. Wood
b412a98	"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." --	doctrine evil good injustice killing learning peace philosophy pride prosperity public-office soul values vice virtue	Iain Pears
7ab6e6a	"[Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers."	change fashions georgia individuality prosperity savannah separateness society	John Berendt
36dbedc	The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.	blessings-quotes charity compassion empathy generosity giving inner-peace kindness peace-of-mind power-of-love power-of-thoughts prayer prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered prosperity selflessness sharing thoughtful wish-creation wishes-fulfilled	Marianne Williamson
e705f8e	It was a time for warm embraces, for smiles, for toasts and reconciliations, for renewing old friendships and making new ones, for laughter and kisses. It was a good time, a golden autumn, a time of peace and plenty. But winter was coming.	happiness laughter ominous peace prosperity threat time-for-love winter-is-coming	George R.R. Martin
d5fce86	The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.	animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world	Robin Hobb
7af2548	In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.	curse prosperity stewardship wealth	Randy Alcorn
f6c1ec7	"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics."	compassion empathy grace-of-god prosperity	Nathaniel Philbrick
a79be8b	Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?	materialsm prosperity	Niall Ferguson
9935f08	I LOVE GETTING BILLS ... It means I have the ability to pay them.. I LOVE PAYING MY BILLS TOO ... It means that prosperity is flowing in and out, in and out, in and out, like the air that I breathe.	money prosperity	Elizabeth Richardson

3d1fdfe

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.

adversity appreciation hardship inspirational life prosperity seasons spring winter

Anne Bradstreet

338a657

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.

compassion evangelism giving gospel greed hunger need prosperity sharing starvation stewardship

John Piper

46470da

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

louisa-may-alcott prosperity

Louisa May Alcott

5bf7601

The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcely believe what was happening to them. Labor had been so long thought to be the natural and inevitable consequence of necessity and poverty that most people still associated it with slavery and servitude. Therefore any possibility of oppression, any threat to the colonists' hard earned prosperity, any hint of reducing them to the povery of other nations, was especially frightening; for it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.

labor prosperity radicalism

Gordon S. Wood

b412a98

"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." --

doctrine evil good injustice killing learning peace philosophy pride prosperity public-office soul values vice virtue

Iain Pears

7ab6e6a

"[Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers."

change fashions georgia individuality prosperity savannah separateness society

John Berendt

36dbedc

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

blessings-quotes charity compassion empathy generosity giving inner-peace kindness peace-of-mind power-of-love power-of-thoughts prayer prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered prosperity selflessness sharing thoughtful wish-creation wishes-fulfilled

Marianne Williamson

e705f8e

It was a time for warm embraces, for smiles, for toasts and reconciliations, for renewing old friendships and making new ones, for laughter and kisses. It was a good time, a golden autumn, a time of peace and plenty. But winter was coming.

happiness laughter ominous peace prosperity threat time-for-love winter-is-coming

George R.R. Martin

d5fce86

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world

Robin Hobb

7af2548

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

curse prosperity stewardship wealth

Randy Alcorn

f6c1ec7

"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics."

compassion empathy grace-of-god prosperity

Nathaniel Philbrick

a79be8b

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?

materialsm prosperity

Niall Ferguson

9935f08

I LOVE GETTING BILLS ... It means I have the ability to pay them.. I LOVE PAYING MY BILLS TOO ... It means that prosperity is flowing in and out, in and out, in and out, like the air that I breathe.

money prosperity

Elizabeth Richardson