The document discusses how to build a strong financial foundation through being frugal and saving money. It provides biblical quotes emphasizing the importance of being rich toward God rather than material wealth. It outlines Father Moon's teachings on establishing an economic foundation through frugality in what you wear, eat, and how you live. He advises saving the maximum possible and finding satisfaction in eating only three-fifths of your food, in order to budget for the sake of others rather than personal wealth or riches.

1. The Lisbon Resolution:
How Can I Build a
Strong Financial
Foundation?

2. Let us become True
Parents’ heirs by:
…developing our financial
foundation
The Lisbon Resolution

3. 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

4. The wise store up choice
food and olive oil, but fools
gulp theirs down.
Proverbs 21:20

5. “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

6. 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

7. 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

8. How do you establish a firm economic foundation? You
should first be frugal.
Father Moon, 13th July 1969 (CSG Pg. 1078)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. Budget for the sake of
others