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Overconsumption Quotes by Joy Davidman
- Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it…
- No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
More Overconsumption Quotes
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas
- How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson
- We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price
- We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh
- I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart… — John Woolman