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Tag Name "Covetousness" (68)

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Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
Saint John Chrysostom
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... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne
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Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
Joseph Addison
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
Edmund Spenser
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Al-Ghazali
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
Gautama Buddha
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost It yearns me not if me my garments wear Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth alms to covetousness.
Richard of Chichester
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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Joseph Hall
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It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
Thomas Aquinas
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
William Penn
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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Confucius
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
Eugene H. Peterson
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
John Piper
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
Cato the Elder
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick
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A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luke the Evangelist
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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Lucy Larcom
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Michael Douglas
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift let us discard all covetousness and greed.
J. Reuben Clark
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advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Ann Bridge
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Henri Rousseau
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