Quotes related to Hebrews 13:5
Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
- Billy Graham
The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.
- Billy Graham
Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man's heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
- Billy Graham
The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.
- Billy Graham
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
- Billy Graham
Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.
- Billy Graham
Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.
- Billy Graham
We need to be on guard against greed... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.
- Billy Graham
Love would never leave us alone.
- Bob Marley
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
- Helen Keller
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
- Pope Gregory The Great
Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.
- St. Therese of Lisieux