A Quote by John Chrysostom
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
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If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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