1,220 Quotes About Greed

Charity by principle that God will bless you in return is to give with a heart of greed rather than with a heart of love.

It was Yahweh, not Satan, who brought this drought upon the people and upon all that they produced. And it is Yahweh who will bring this same sort of spiritual drought upon you and upon all that you produce, if you neglect the house of God to pursue your own personal goals and insist on doing things your own way, while you whistle Frank Sinatra's song.

An agenda driven by greed is never informed by thought.

Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t have starts to look like the only thing that I do have.

Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share.

I wonder if it’s in losing everything that we realize that all we’ve lost is the ‘nothing’ that we mistakenly thought was ‘everything.

Children are starving for story, the kind that builds on hope, the kind that echos for a lifetime. We need story in our lives, not dreams based on greed.

Being my own cause is to position the world around me so that the entirety of it would be at my disposal. And if there’s one way to rather quickly and efficiently dispose of my life, this would be it.

Ọgbọ́n ati Ọpọlọ arekereke ni pa o'logbon àbí ọ'lọpọlọ́.