Best 15 quotes in «love of money quotes» category

Scale the shifting tower of coin and what awaits may change from the breathtaking vista of your expectations into terrifying vertigo.

If you want a major hint at what is consistently part of destroying our environment, I’ll give you one: Factory farming.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Satisfaction in worldliness is great pain.

If you have money in your pockets, you trust no one and you will become the slave of money forever.

The tithe simply is not a sufficiently radical concept to embody the carefree unconcern for possessions that marks life in the Kingdom of God. ... It is quite possible to tithe and at the same time oppress the poor and needy. ... The tithe is not necessarily evil' it simply cannot provide a sufficient base for Jesus' call to carefree unconcern over provision. ... Perhaps the tithe can be a beginning way to acknowledge God as the owner of all things, but it is only a beginning and not an ending.

The hatred of money is almost always a defense mechanism.

Those with a nose for success will always be distracted by the whiff of lucre.

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

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.

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they’re happy.

Boasting about wealth is an open invitation to others to divest you of it.