Happiness Quote by John Macarthur

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no…

— Jeremy Taylor

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting…

— Marilynne Robinson

The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct…

— John Bunyan

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what…

— Alistair Begg

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my…

— William Shakespeare

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

— Anonymous

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless…

— Zoroaster

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead…

— William Arthur Ward

Blessed are those who have learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead…

— Nishan Panwar

What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity?…

— Chanakya

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

“Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved,…

— Matthew Henry