Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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

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

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

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

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.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The prophets, Christ, and the apostles declared freely [did not get paid], and against them that did not declare freely; such as preached for filthy lucre, and divined for money, and preached for hire, and were covetous and greedy, that could never have enough; and that they that have the same spirit that Christ, and the prophets, and the apostles had, could not but declare against all such now, as they did then.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

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

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

It means zero to be against greed.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.