Covetousness Quotes
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“But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.”
― Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
― Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
“I can admire, but I no longer covet. Books of course are another matter; books are not acquisitions, they are necessities.”
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
― Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Most of the crimes which disturb the internal peace of society are produced by the restraints which the necessary, but unequal, laws of property have imposed on the appetites of mankind, by confining to a few the possession of those objects that are coveted by many. Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude. In the tumult of civil discord, the laws of society lose their force, and their place is seldom supplied by those of humanity. The ardor of contention, the pride of victory, the despair of success, the memory of past injuries, and the fear of future dangers, all contribute to inflame the mind, and to silence the voice of pity. From such motives almost every page of history has been stained with civil blood....”
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
“The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.”
― The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
― The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
“You don't know the true meaning of BEAUTY if you see it everywhere but in your own life.”
― Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
― Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.”
― City of God
― City of God
“But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.”
― Insulted By Ungodliness: Raising a generation of the provoked in every nation
― Insulted By Ungodliness: Raising a generation of the provoked in every nation
“But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“The enemy that is Envy is trigger-happy; he's pretty much a gunslinger who wields a silenced Demotivator - sent with sabotage, suicide, and suppression, he assassinates in secret, and so hopes to exterminate, to kill what was meant to motivate him - in simpler terms and less expression: he shoots the messenger.”
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“Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.”
― 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
― 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
“Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.”
― Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
― Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.”
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”
― The Mountain of Ignorance
― The Mountain of Ignorance
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.”
― The Mountain of Ignorance
― The Mountain of Ignorance
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.”
― The Mountain of Ignorance
― The Mountain of Ignorance
“The last of us fell
between the concrete fractures
and steel memories of life.
Nature gave the lot
and we took with our eyes closed
until nobody remained.”
― The Silent Balance: A Collection of Waka Poetry
between the concrete fractures
and steel memories of life.
Nature gave the lot
and we took with our eyes closed
until nobody remained.”
― The Silent Balance: A Collection of Waka Poetry
“The tenth commandment forbids coveting because doing so denies the goodness of God. Jesus speaks against hoarding because doing so denies the goodness of God. Coveting implies a lack in God's present provision and hoarding anticipates a lack in God's good provision in the future. Neither mind-set will translate into generosity. Generosity flourishes only when we do not fear loss.”
― In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
― In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
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