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Bernard Moon wonders if religious professionals really mean to say they follow a higher calling than the rest of us...because sometimes that's what it sounds like.
Bernard Moon explores the certainty of uncertainty and the necessity of constructing a worldview robust enough to be honestly humble.
A native of the United States clings to this world's goods as if he were certain never to die; and he is so hasty in grasping at all within his reach that one would suppose he was constantly afraid of not living long enough to enjoy them....and if at the end of a year of unremitting labor he finds he has a few days' vacation, [...]
Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is by human avarice or stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C S Lewis
Picking up from the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13-21, Solomon West observes some of Jesus’ most immensely practical teaching on how we are to live our lives.
Alvin and Heidi Toffler: Revolutionary Wealth
How it will be created and how it will change our lives
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The authors of the acclaimed Future Shock describe how tomorrow's wealth will be created and by whom. They describe how the deep fundamentals such as time, space, and knowledge are different in First, Second, and Third Wave economies.
...bring back the awareness of a Whole and Higher Authority above us — and the altogether forgotten sense of humility before this entity. There can be only one true Progress: the sum total of the spiritual progress of each individual, of the degree of self–perfection in the course of their lives.
Aleksandr Solzhenitysn
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The Scriptures communicate significantly about family wealth and capital, an idea largely lost in Christian teaching today.
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Capital that is not invested is consumed, in one way or another. ... A family borrows against the increased equity in a house in order to buy a car is living on capital. A city in which the roads, buildings, and parks are deteriorating is doing the same thing. And [...]
Herb Schlossberg
... to give up everything for Christ consists of an internal relinquishment of all our possessions ... The standard set before us is not that all Christians take a vow of poverty. Some of us will always be richer and others poorer. Yet all of us are to have a contract with Christ that whenever obedience to him means sacrifice of any degree, [...]
John White
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