Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

loss of an economic basis is what, above all, fate means today.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.