All too often, business owners and executives look at business as merely a way to earn wealth and miss out on opportunities to do more. But some business leaders want to become ambassadors of Christ in the Marketplace. They want to justly earn profits, but they want to do so in a way that is responsible, virtuous, and Christlike.
The Bible is extraordinarily rich with wisdom for business owners who want to operate their companies as something more than just a means to create wealth.
Here are 14 verses from the Bible that every Catholic business leader needs to remember:
Proverbs 16:8 “Better a little with justice, than a large income with injustice.”
Proverbs 10:4 “The slack hand impoverishes, but the busy hand brings riches.”
Psalm 127:2 “It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil— all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.”
Proverbs 23:4 “Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth, cease to be worried about it”
Proverbs 20:4 “In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.”
Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance”
Psalm 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build.”
Luke 16:10 “The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones.”
Proverbs 4:7 “The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; whatever else you get, get understanding.”
Proverbs 14:23 “In all labor there is profit, but mere talk tends only to loss.”
Proverbs 21:5 “The plans of the diligent end in profit, but those of the hasty end in loss.”
Leviticus 19:13 “You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer.”
Proverbs 13:11 “ Wealth won quickly dwindles away, but gathered little by little, it grows.”
Mark 8:36 “What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?”
I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation this past Saturday. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up that morning. I try to go every six weeks or so, but this was no routine visit to the priest for me. I needed to unburden myself of the numerous venial sins I had committed since I last participated in this Sacrament.
Purest Gold: God's Refining Fire in our Lives »
After salvation, many young Christians wonder if there's anything more to their newfound faith than just the security blanket of "being a Christian." Time and time again, God shows himself as a "refiner," and our lives are as gold. God started leading me in this study to understand what He was doing in my life, as well as in the lives of others.
Picking up my pen to write this column, I couldn’t imagine how time flies. Since the last publication of this column I have gone through a lot, especially the loss of my dear mother to whom I dedicate this article. Not only her, but seems I lost a whole generation of my close family.
How to Achieve Business Excellence »
“Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before Kings; He will not stand before unknown men.” Proverbs 22:29
Spiritual Development for our Youth »
Most of us youth in today's fast moving world are easily thrown off by difficulties and worries.
The theme of conversion is a thread that runs all through Lent, but conversion takes on different aspects throughout the phases of Lent. The first two and a half weeks focused on the interior turning of hearts; the liturgy urges the faithful to reflect and examine consciences thoroughly.
Saint Josephine Bakhita »
Feast Day: February 8
Patron Saint Of: Sudan
Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering.
Catholics Must Fast More Intensely This Lent»
The Norbertine Canons of St. Michael's Abbey have created this digital Lenten retreat so that you can journey through this holy season alongside them. If you want to have one of your best Lenten seasons yet, join us in our Lenten Program "The Great Fast" - https://theabbotscircle.com/the-great-fast-join
When Your Faith Is Put to the Test - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon»
Friends, we come now to the Second Sunday of Lent, and we’re on both dangerous and very holy ground with the first reading from the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. The ancient Israelites referred to it as the “Akedah,” which means the “binding”: Abraham binds and is ready to sacrifice Isaac at God’s command.
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