Quotes About Covetousness

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Give me the baby," Maryse said jealously. "You've had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.

There are people who cannot live unless they possess something or someone. With some it's money. Lots and

L'uomo che possiede una cosa poi ne vorrà due e poi tre e poi tutte le cose che ci sono sulla terra. E avrà in cambio solo la sua condanna, perché nessuno può possedere tutto il mondo.

The unselfish man, even though he finds himself involved in riches, stands aloof, in his mind, from the idea of "exclusive possession", and so escapes the bitterness and fear and anxiety which ever accompany the covetous spirit. He does not regard any of his outward accretions as being too valuable to lose, but he regards the virtue of unselfishness as being too valuable to the world - to suffering humanity - to lose or cast away.

Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Os Hillman, in his book The Purposes of Money2, writes about four potholes on the road to prosperity: 1. Greed (1 Timothy 3:3) 2. Covetousness (Exodus 20:17; 1 Timothy 3:3) 3. Stinginess (Luke 6:29) 4. Self-reliance (Galatians 2:20)

Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which thou hast, everything more or less cleaveth to thee. If thy love be pure, sincere, well-regulated, thou shalt not be in captivity to anything. Do not covet what thou mayest not have; do not have what is able to hinder thee, and to rob thee of inward liberty.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.