Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all. (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10).

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.