Andy Stanley Quotes

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

… an avalanche of avarice

Avarice is a deadly sin.

Greed is the worst thing.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

For greed, all nature is too little.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

It means zero to be against greed.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.