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The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never ... -
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The search for the good life, which so often is defined in terms of “things” and the means to get as many “things” as possible, has turned into a dead end as more and more people have more and more. -
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Be less concerned with what you have than with what you are. -
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A possession ought to belong to the possessor, not the possessor to the possession. -
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Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. -
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There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that e... -
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Let temporal things serve your use, but the eternal be the object of your desire. -
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Possessions are not God’s blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us. -
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The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff. -
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Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while. -
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What really characterizes consumer culture is not attachment to things but detachment. . . . People do not cling to things; they discard them and buy other things. -
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We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world. -
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy... -
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No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you. -
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Not only are my possessions not bringing happiness into my life; even worse, they are actually distracting me from the things that do! -
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How do modern Christians and churches avoid the seductive power of material possessions? How can wealth remain a “good” for their enjoyment rather than leading them further away from God and the prior... -
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -
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Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. -
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The drive to possess is an engine for hurry. -
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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you. -
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My suspicion is that we have simply lost our way. I suspect that our material longings are more largely formed by our culture than by the Christ and that our spending habits do not differ radically fr... -
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I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. -
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For all our time and attention, no matter how carefully we curate our stuff or how much we might enjoy ourselves along the way, we’re all merely stocking and staging someone else’s opportunity for bar... -
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There is no object of desire quite like a house. Few things . . . are capable of eliciting such urgent, even painful, yearning. -
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It is not objects that people really desire, but their lush coating of images and dreams. . . . It is never the object which is consumed—instead it is the relationship between us and the object of des... -
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. -
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Things are not ends in themselves; they are means to greater attachment to others. . . . But to have a good relationship with others, it is necessary to have a proper relationship with things. -
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The common expression that describes such a value system as “the pursuit of the almighty dollar” is soundly based in the recognition that the exaltation of possessions to the level of ultimacy is the ... -
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money. -
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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
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