Quotes About Covetousness

Jealousy is the hardest emotion to hide.

That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others.

A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted. Simon Magus for a season left his sorceries; but his covetousness and ambition, that set him on work, remained still, and would have been acting another way. Therefore Peter tells him, "I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness;"—"Notwithstanding

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

The reason thereof is, said the Duchess, that they have too little Gold and Riches, which makes them so eager to have it. No, replied the Empress's Soul, their particular Covetousness, is beyond all the wealth of the richest World, and the more Riches they have, the more Covetous they are; for their Covetousness is Infinite.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Insatiable avarice only needs a teaspoon of love.

Hebrews 13:5; Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'

There was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.

We are acquisitive to the point of greed; ready to drop the bone we have for its reflection magnified in the mirror of the future.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.