"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

    I Thessalonians 4:16-18
 

"For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed."

John 3:20

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius— and a lot of courage— to move in the opposite direction."

    Albert Einstein

"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness."

    1 Timothy 6: 9-11

"All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty."

Proverbs 14: 23

"A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing."

Proverbs 20: 4

"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest---and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man."

Proverbs 24: 33-34

"Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty or riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God."

Proverbs 30: 8-9

"Low ability predicts poor performance in most jobs, but high ability is less related to performance. Low ability means the person simply does not have what it takes to handle the intricacies of the job. However, after a minimum level of ability has been reached, everyone can perform the tasks. Whether or not a person performs well is then a function of motivation." (Gorsuch, 1983, p.17-18)

Gorsuch, R.L. (1983). Factor Analysis (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

"Surely a God powerful enough to create the entire universe would be wise enough to make it look 3 + billion years old—so as to incorporate a mechanism by which to sort out the believers from the non-believers. Proof and faith are mutually exclusive: if you solely require scientific proof, you don’t have faith—if you have faith, you don’t solely require scientific proof."