PROSPERITY 富足

Fewer men are survive the test of prosperity than the pressure of poverty.

比起貧窮的壓力，能經過富足考驗的人少多了。

We do not realize how much we are attached to the good things of this world until they are taken from us.

Augustine

直到我們失去世上美物時，我們才知道自己多麼依賴那些東西。

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

Horatius Bonar

在富有之時，我們可以求助的地方何其多；而在患難之日卻只有一個。

The snow covers many a dunghill; so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.

Thomas Brooks

白雪遮蓋許多糞堆；財富同樣遮掩許多腐臭的心。

In prosperity, our fiends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Churton Collins

在富足之時，朋友知道我們；患難之時我們認清朋友。

The saints' spots are most got in peace, plenty and prosperity.

William Gurnall

聖徒的瑕疵是在平靜、豐富、繁榮之際染上的。

Let prosperity be as oil to the wheels of obedience and affliction as wind to the sails of prayer.

Philip Henry

讓富足成為我們順服輪子的潤滑油，苦難成為推動禱告船帆的風。

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

Thomas Jefferson

闕如品格的豐富貲財必定導致毀滅。

Prosperity is good campaigning weather for the devil.

C. S. Lewis

富足是魔鬼施展作為的絕佳天候。

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

如果沒有冬天，春天就沒這麼宜人；如果沒有嚐過患難，富足就沒那麼受人歡迎。

I am never afraid for my brethren who have many troubles, but I often tremble for those whose career is prosperous.

C. H. Spurgeon

我從來不怕我的弟兄遭遇許多患難，倒是為那些一帆風順的人憂心忡忡。

If you want to destroy a nation give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

John Steinback

如果你要毀滅一個國家那就讓她富足有餘 - 這會讓她變得貪婪、悲慘、不健康。

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Chilo

比起富足的朋友，我們需要更迅速的探望患難中的朋友。

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates

牢記人生無常；避免富足時過度的得意，或患難中的過度憂傷。

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928

富足只是供人使用的一項工具，而不是供人敬拜的神祉。

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

富足產生朋友、患難試驗朋友。

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

富足是不錯的老師；患難是更不錯的老師。

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

Jerry Gellis

富足就是在真實世界中安舒度日，不管你有沒有錢。