Andy Stanley Quotes

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

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

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

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.

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.

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

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

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.