Spiritual Thoughts

  T he greatest wealth is to live  content with little . ~ Plato K eep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." ~ Hebrews 13:15

  Friday Tale - You  Are Rich I  once asked my Aunt, Dora Jane, who raised me as if she were my mother where we stood on the spectrum between rich and poor. I said, "I know we live well and have money, but we don't have millions of dollars. What does that make us?"   She responded by saying, "I beg your pardon! We are rich, we have always been rich and we will always be rich!"   I responded, "But Auntie, we don't have money like the Getty's!"     She interrupted me and said as she pointed to her heart, and then to her head, "Rich is in here and up here.   You will always be rich in heart and mind. If you have a lot of money that makes you wealthy. If you have no money, that makes you broke.   You see, richness is a state of mind; not how much money you have.   It does not matter how much you have that counts in life.   It's what you do with what you have than counts.   And so long as you remember that you will always ...

  T here is nothing wrong with people possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess people. ~ Billy Graham   I nstruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, BUT on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. ~ 1 Timothy 6:17

L ives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours? ~ Roy H. Williams I f you seek wisdom like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and learn to know God. This is life eternal to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. ~ Proverbs 2:4-5, John 17:3

T he day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not    have to purchase these things with money. ~Titus Maccius Plautus (200 BC)  G ive thanks to the Lord, to Him who made  the great lights, the sun to rule over the day,....    the moon and stars to rule over the night,   for His steadfast love endures forever....   ~Psalm 136:1, 7-9