"...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have……" — Joseph Hall
"...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have."
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49 Quotes by Joseph Hall
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees…
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should…
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
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Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the…
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I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my…
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart,…
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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest,…
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Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing…
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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
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What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is…
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More Covetousness Quotes
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at…
— Abraham Cowley
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift;…
— J. Reuben Clark
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends,…
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
— Al-Ghazali
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the…
— Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
— Daniel Defoe
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust;…
— Unknown Author
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