 It is not the being rich that is wrong, but the serving of riches, instead of making them serve your neighbour and yourself — your neighbour for this life, yourself for the everlasting habitations. God knows it is hard for the rich man to enter into...  Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - Page 320by George MacDonald - 1867Full view - About this book
 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 400 pages
...but the serving of riches, instead of making them serve your neighbor and yourself — your neighbor for this life, yourself for the everlasting habitations....the greater the victory when it is the rich man that overcorneth the world. It is easier for the poor man to enter into the kingdom, yet many of the poor... | |
 | Origen - 1872 - 628 pages
...Nazareth," did not promulgate laws opposed to those just considered in regard to riches, when He said, " It is hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of God ; " l whether we take the word " rich " in its simplest sense, as referring to the man whose... | |
 | Personal responsibility - 1869 - 174 pages
...which men are minded to serve, either with God (but this they cannot do), or without Him ; so that it is hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It may open heaven to us if we have sent our treasure there before us. But oh! how much... | |
 | Personal responsibility - 1869 - 174 pages
...which men are minded to serve, either with God (but this they cannot do), or without Him ; so that it is hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It may open heaven to us if we have sent our treasure there before us. But oh ! how much... | |
 | 1875 - 660 pages
...the worldly sacrifices to be made are great obstacles in the way of persons of high social position. It is " hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." The spirit of persecution is none the less bitter because its outward demonstrations are checked... | |
 | League in aid of the Mexican branch of the Church - 1878 - 44 pages
...the worldly sacrifices to be made are great obstacles in the way of persons of high social position. It is " hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." The spirit of persecution is none the less bitter because its outward demonstrations are checked... | |
 | Samuel Smith Harris - 1883 - 236 pages
...for the old method of charity by love instead of charity by law. Verily, it is always and everywhere hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but by pauperizing the poor, and banishing them in their unloveliness and squalor, we have made it harder... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1894 - 378 pages
...example which is most often brought up against Jesus, he declares, what is a simple matter of fact, that it is hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven, that the eager pursuit of wealth, and the lassitude which comes with the possession of wealth,... | |
 | Mildmay conference - 1879 - 538 pages
...the worldly sacrifices to be made, are great obstacles in the way of persons of high social position. It is 'hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of God ' The spirit of persecution is none the less bitter because its outward demonstrations are checked... | |
 | Brooke Herford - 1908 - 308 pages
...which riches deceive men as to their own characters. It has been shrewdly said, that it may be harder for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven, but it is a great deal easier for him to think that he is on the way. How can a prosperous man think very... | |
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