Showing posts with label covetousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label covetousness. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

From the song 'Too Much' by Spice Girls:

Too much of something is bad enough,
But something's coming over me to make me wonder.
Too much of nothing is just as tough,
I need to know the way to feel to keep me satisfied.
Too much of nothing so why don't we give it a try,
Too much of something we're gonna be living a lie,
Too much of nothing so why don't we give it a try,
Too much of something we're gonna be living a lie.

https://youtu.be/_4VoZ6afztc






"Every ambitious person is a captive and every covetous one a pauper."
- Arab proverb

"Covetous people are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen who live by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it."
- Robert Burton

"There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment."
- Mark Twain

"The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them."
- Tillotson

"It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor.  For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants.  Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil."
- Martin Luther

"And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
- Holy Bible King James Version (KJV), Luke 12:15 

"Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got."
- Sprat

#MainMessageForToday
He who has little and is always content is happier than he who is always coveting though he has so much.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Is #ambition #covetousness?.....

"I want it all,
A little bit is never enough!"
- From the song 'I Want It All', High School Musical 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xxSRvl5VM



"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
- Christopher Marlowe