You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.
He who is attached to things will suffer much.
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
