We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

For greed all nature is too little.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.