The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has… — Bob Wright Copy Share Image
Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it… — Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
