The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. - Richard J. Foster
The poorest man I know is the man
He who provides for this life but takes no care for eternity is wise for a moment but a fool forever. - John Tillotson
Their property held them in chains.
They think of themselves as owners;
whereas it is they rather who
are owned. Enslaved as they are
to their own property,
they are not the masters of their money but its slaves. - Cyprian
Give a person everything they want and at that moment, everything will not be everything. - Immanuel Kant
If you would make a person happy, add not to their possessions, but subtract from the sum of
their desires.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and receive without forgetting.
The modern American is a person
on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store,
Possession is an obsession in our culture.
It’s not the high
cost of living that gets you. . .
it’s the cost of high living!
Consumers are in an endless, hopeless search for happiness through the confiscation
of things. - Thomas O’Quinn
Affluenza turns the good life into the goods life. - Richard Swenson
When your outgo
exceeds your income,
your upkeep
will be your downfall!
These quotes are taken from Good Sense Budget Course, Dick Towner and John Tofilon
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