Patrick Henry and the Measure of True Wealth

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“Patrick Henry wrote into his will that if he had left nothing in terms of worldly riches but had given his heirs a faith in Jesus Christ, then they were of all people most wealthy. Conversely, he added that if he had left them all the wealth in the world but had not left them a faith in Jesus Christ, they would be of all people most destitute.”

Patrick Henry cited by Richard Foster in The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex and Power (Harper: San Francisco, 1985) 82.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever wants to lose his life for me and for the Gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Mark 8:35-36