Quotes About Covetousness

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women... they usually belong to someone else.

Nothing sharpens sight like envy

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

Here was an oddity: that in the latter days when laymen owned everything they didn't care much for anything, yet some priests who owned little or nothing developed ferocious attachments for ordinary objects—I once knew a monk who owned nothing, had given it all away for Christ, yet coveted the monastery typewriter with a jealous love, flew into rages when another monk touched it.

G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

Hebrews 13:5–6: Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" Don't covet; be content with what you have. The freedom from the frantic desire to have is grounded in God's promise to never leave us.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge—were all respected.

Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Envy-Thy art blindness

She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.

He knows, now, that nearly everything you call yours in the world can be taken away from you by other people, assuming that they want it enough.

I didn't want either him or his cousin, I only wanted to be able to rob them in peace.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Não, não, ainda melhor assim: cada um com um corpo, empurrando-o para frente, querendo sofregamente vivê-lo. Procurando cheio de cobiça subir o outro, pedindo cheio de covardia astuciosa e comovente para existir melhor, melhor.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

It seems to be the rule of the world. Each person has what he doesn't want, & other people have what he does what.