Quoty search results for tag: prosperity http://www.quoty.org/tag/prosperity I asked for wisdom...
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity...
And God gave me brains and the strength to work.
I asked for courage...
And God gave me danger to overcome.
I asked for love...
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors...
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.
My Prayer has been answered.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Unknown
Saved by ImaWriterIII in danger problem strength opportunity wisdom prosperity courage prayer needs wants anonymous EDS favor ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6107You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Author: Pogo, Source: Unknown
Saved by ImaWriterIII in strength character initiative prosperity courage independence enemy enemy strong thrift employee employer pogo ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5915What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality.  Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

Author: George C. Leef, Source: Unknown
Saved by ImaWriterIII in liberty government progress prosperity morality biggovernment cancer georgecleef surgery ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5893For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. -- I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? -- On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday, and St. Tuesday, will cease to be holidays. SIX days shalt thou labour, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Author: Benjamin Franklin, Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin Volume II, Political Economy, "Essay On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor", p. 356
Saved by dtbrewer in welfare prosperity selfreliance charity poverty ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/5332Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Author: Adam Smith, Source: Written in 1755
Saved by dtbrewer in freedom prosperity selfgovernment market limited ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4909::You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Author: Adrian Rogers, 1931, Source: ??
Saved by dyejo in government welfare prosperity poor ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4796If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.

Author: Thomas Paine, Source: Rights of Man, 1791
Saved by jrbond in government prosperity greed force tax ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4794Modern-day prophets have pled in plainness for us to avoid "get-rich-quick" schemes if we would avoid the heartaches of financial bondage. Perhaps we have not said enough about the fact that too many of us, in our moments of dreaming of grandeur, plant the seeds of economic disaster. Then at a later date when much is lost, we blame those who participated with us. It is difficult to be of good cheer when self-deceit is our companion. When we willingly expose ourselves to the winds and storms of fraud and scam, we should not be surprised when we come down with deficit disease. Over the years of listening to those who have suffered heavy money losses, I have heard many in desperation declare, "I was taken." Often my heart, mind, and the Spirit have prompted me to share, "Yes, you were taken by yourself." We all need to be encouraged to lift up our heads and see where our thoughts and undeclared priorities are taking us. Self-deceit permits us to blame others for our failures.

Author: Marvin J. Ashton, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db0...
Saved by cboyack in wealth prosperity business economy finances deceit ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/4130Being driven from city to city... is nothing compared to the danger of becoming rich and being hailed by outsiders as a first-class community.

Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses, 12:272
Saved by cboyack in persecution trial wealth prosperity rich utah ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3845
If we look carefully at the Bible or the Book of Mormon or modern Church history, we can find many instances of good individuals who, like Job, suffer. Think of the martyred women and children who were burned before the eyes of Alma and Amulek. (See Alma 14:7–11.) Complicating the simplistic view of retribution expressed by Job’s comforters is the fact that sometimes “the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked.” (Alma 60:13.)

Job’s example, then, corrects unwarranted assumptions based upon the true doctrine of retribution. It reminds us that the Lord’s plan of rewards and punishment does not guarantee that only the wicked will suffer, nor does it insulate the righteous from adversity or assure them material rewards in this life. Christ, though blameless, suffered more than has any other man. If the Lord, who was perfect, had to endure affliction, should we, who are imperfect, expect to be spared from it? The only reward for righteousness that the Lord holds out unfailingly to individuals is “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.” (D&C 59:23.) But even this peace must be found amid persecutions, not in their absence. (See John 14:27; John 15:20.)


Author: John S. Tanner, Source: Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?’, Ensign, Dec 1990, 49
Saved by mlsscaress in individual reward punishment peace adversity prosperity job rewards imperfect ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3328Author: Garrett B. Gunderson, Source: Killing Sacred Cows
Saved by rpage in happiness prosperity economics ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/2395Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Screwtape Letters
Saved by richardkmiller in prosperity riches worldliness ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/2117Author: Garrett Gunderson, Source: Killing Sacred Cows, page 27
Saved by rpage in integrity prosperity business capitalism economics ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/2079
Some debt—such as for a modest home, expenses for education, perhaps for a needed first car—may be necessary. But never should we enter into financial bondage through consumer debt without carefully weighing the costs.
Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin, Source: http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb690...
Saved by cboyack in wealth prosperity economy debt bondage finances ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1779Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints, Ensign, July 1972, 59
Saved by cboyack in liberty conspiracy government freedom secretcombination destruction peace prosperity fact theory threat ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1778