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Finance, Money and Wealth (Part 2)

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 maxims He highlights abuse, vanity and temptation as the areas that we must contemplate and rectify.

"Child abuse is a crime crying out for vengeance. What then financial abuse, all over the world?"

"For some a 'quick fix' is to get rich quick, but at who's expense? An unworthy pursuit."

"'Paper tigers' abound within the financial arena."

"Truth compromised for profit is grave deceit."

"Greed and theft, the cause of much financial insecurity, are acts of social malice."

"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."

"Tempting though it may be, too much wealth can be very destructive of spiritual health."

"Money for sport is not truly sport and can lead to self-indulgence and distress."

"What use is money without product, for product is the result of effort."

"Cap in hand attitudes towards dominating financiers is not justified. What is justified is equality of effort."

"Beware of the vanity of wealth, even intellectual and spiritual wealth. A vain spirituality is an undesirable handicap.

"If you consider My laws to be unacceptable, obviously you are not concerned about the size of your legal fees."

"The world's problems are many because too much is known about too little and too little about so much."

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