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Overconsumption Quotes by Saint Augustine
- All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
- For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…
- You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house…
- It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be…
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
- There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of… — E. Stanley Jones
- We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. — Winston Churchill