covetousness

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.

Even envy, wants to even the score.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.