God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would a...
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvati...
Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a home in the suburbs, and idle weekends. But that is a freedom dependent upon affluence, which is in turn dependent upon the rapid consumption o...
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language.
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
