Quotes about Greed

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

I am Michael, the sword of God. The edge is turned toward thee: not for those sins whereof thou dost repent, lust, greed, wrath, avarice, the faults of flesh sloughed off with the flesh, but that which feeds the soul, the sin that is so much a part of thee thou know'st it not for sin.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.