The Lisbon Resolution:How Can I Build a Strong Financial

Foundation?

Let us become True Parents’ heirs by:

…developing our financial foundation

The Lisbon Resolution

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Matthew 6:25

The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.

Proverbs 21:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Luke 12:20-21

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

1 Timothy 6:18-19

How do you establish a firm economic foundation? You should first be frugal.

Father Moon, 13th July 1969 (CSG Pg. 1078)

There is nothing extraordinary about being frugal. You should be frugal in what you wear, what you eat, and in the way you live.

Father Moon, 3rd January 1978 (CSG Pg. 1079)

Even when you eat out of hunger you

should not completely fill your plate with food. You should maintain the standard of finding satisfaction in

eating three-fifths of your plateful after removing two-fifths of it. Only then are you a wise person. You should know hot to be frugal in everything. You should save the maximum and then find out the minimum you can live with.

Father Moon, 31st May 1972 (CSG PG. 1079)

When we say, “Save money!” we should think of the more public purpose of saving for the nation rather than for the more personal purpose of gathering wealth. We are not saving to become rich. We are doing so to save the nation.

Father Moon, 22nd February 1981 (CSG PG. 1080)

Budget for the sake of others