Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Variant: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
Song lyrics
Hannity's America, May 13, 2007 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
Source: Horns
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 27.
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
