Richard Salter Storrs Quotes

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

The Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true!

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.