Work hard, save money, and read worldly success as evidence of divine favor.
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Protestant ethic
Work hard, save money, and read worldly success as evidence of divine favor.
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John Wesley summarizes Protestant economic ethics as gaining all one can, saving all one can, and thereby growing rich as a calling.
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"We must exhort all Christians to gain all they can and to save all they can. That is, in effect, to grow rich, all..."
"Even though most people are not Protestants, Protestant, the work ethic, the belief system, has conquered the world. Germany, Britain, United States are the..."
"He's trying to explain why is it that Protestants are a lot wealthier than Catholics in general, okay? And this is what he has..."
"And to combat all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self -confidence is the result of insufficient faith and hence of..."
"So this idea of, you have anxiety? How do you deal with anxiety? Work, work, work. Okay? OCD, obsessive compulsive behavior. What kind of..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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