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Covetousness: Quotations from Burning Words

Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.— SOUTH

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.— THOMAS ADAMS

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.— SOUTH

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.— TILLOTSON

The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him.— FISHER'S CATECHISM

If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.