Billy Graham Quotes

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

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

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Money is evil.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

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

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.