If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Affluence means influence.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If you give, you will be blessed.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.