Coveting (7)
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. Covetousness makes us the slaves of the devil
The best remedy is contentment. If we are content with our own, we shall not covet that which is another's.
If we covet heaven more, we shall covet earth less. To those who stand on the top of the Alps, the great cities of Campania seem but as small villages; so if our hearts were more fixed upon the Jerusalem above, all worldly things would disappear, would diminish, and be as nothing in our eyes.
A covetous man is like a bee that gets into a barrel of honey, and there drowns itself. As a ferryman takes in so many passengers to increase his fare, that he sinks his boat; so a covetous man takes in so much gold to increase his estate, that he drowns himself in perdition.
A man is given to covetousness when he so sets his heart upon worldly things, that for the love of them, he will part with heavenly; for the 'wedge of gold,' he will part with the 'pearl of price.'The Ten Commandments, 175
A man may be said to be given to covetousness, when all his discourse is about the world.The Ten Commandments, 175
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