“Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)” MindBelieveStatesLife IsAttitudeQualitySituationPovertyOur LivesEventsLuckIllnessRichesGood LifeState Of MindOur RelationshipGood LuckDeathbedAppraise Author:Stephen Levine
“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms” MayDoePovertyRichesSicknessSymptomsEnviousSnob Book:The Winter of our Discontent Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.” TurnsFeltWealthPovertyRichesRecallsInability Author:Daniel Gilbert
“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.” MenPovertyAliveAdversityFortuneProsperityRichesHappiest Man Author:Thomas Browne
“Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.” IfsMayLongHandsCan DoLordEnemyPovertyReadyBlessingBlessedEndureHarmRichesReactionsLiftsVainCurseBlessCursing Book:The Cost of Discipleship Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.” KnowsBelieveEndsCareChristianChurchPoorPovertyRichTragedyRichesGreat Tragedy Author:Shane Claiborne