Covetousness Quotes

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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

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.

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

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

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

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.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

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.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

Even envy, wants to even the score.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

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