64 Quotes About Hoarding

"Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)"

"I keep wondering what would have happened if his unquiet mother had hoarded books instead of semiautomatic weapons."

"There's a difference between a blessed increase and greedy oversolicitous hoarding."

"If I’m owed anything, it would be all of the consequences that come with believing that I’m owed."

"Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods."

"My choice of a lighter lifestyle has brought me a greater sense of well-being. In a world that often seems stressful and chaotic, that’s a feeling I cherish."

"If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall."

"Touch things. I’ve said it again and again. Look. Always, always look. Assuming what is in a box or at the back of a shelf does no good whatsoever. But assuming is the hardest thing for me to fight in my war against clutter. I see a mass of stuff and assume it’s full of emotions. I assume every last item in the pile, box, or closet will rip my heart right out of my chest. Every single item will represent a part of life I’m not ready to accept is over."

"It is not good to hoard money and it isequally unsanitary to hoard knowledge; themore you hoard the less you think and thelesser you know. - On Greed and Knowledge"