Finance
Financial management is a very important requirement for any organisation be it social, family, business or government. Financial abuse, therefore, of any kind is a grave offence against what God has decreed as a general and overriding commandment that we love one another. In the following aphorisms He highlights abuse, vanity and temptation as the areas that we must contemplate and rectify.
'For some a “quick fix” is to get rich quick, but at whose expense? An unworthy pursuit.'
'Paper tigers abound within the financial arena.'
'Child abuse is a crime crying out to heaven for vengeance. What then financial abuse, all over the world?'
'Truth compromised for profit is grave deceit.'
'There is a catch to living within one's means; do not get caught up in extravagances.'
'A good budget is a form of enlightenment. Put God in the centre of your budget and all your true needs will be met.'
'Look before you leap and pray before you pay.'
'When there is turbulence within the market place, sign yourself daily with the sign of the cross. By doing so you will be blessed with the wisdom of knowing the right decisions to make.'
'Overspending can be the result of a passion for excitement.'
'If you don't need it, it is never a bargain.'
'Greed and theft, the cause of much financial insecurity, are acts of social malice.'
'To spend wisely is a social responsibility, for it helps to restrain inflation.'
'In all of your financial arrangements and dealings, all I ask is that you seek to be wise, generous and fair.'
'Financial security, granted to others, is social grace.'
'If deep down you know you are a financial predator, then wise up before it is too late.'
'Societies that fashion their economies on the prospects of greedy returns are, from a long term perspective, lacking in natural wisdom.'
'Big business has within it the seeds of its own destruction. The most pernicious is the seed of greed.'
'If greed becomes the main purpose of commerce it can make competition destructive and irrational.'
'Inordinate wealth can be the result of unrestrained business stealth.'
'Inflationary pressures are a measure of greed.'
'Money for sport is not truly sport and can lead to self-indulgence and distress.'
'You can not buy My love with money, but you can claim My love by your devotion to others.'
'If you consider My laws to be unacceptable, obviously you are not concerned about the size of your legal fees.'
'All the money in the world cannot save anyone from the eventuality of dying.'
'The world's problems are many because too much is known about too little and too little about so much.'