The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.
– Billy Graham
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- The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
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- If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own. – Billy Graham
- We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things. – Billy Graham
- What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
- Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 – – Munindra Misra
- The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor. – Billy Graham
- God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible. – Billy Graham
- The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ. – Billy Graham
- The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning’s newspaper. – Billy Graham
- Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy. – Unarine Ramaru
- When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run. – Billy Graham
- The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. – Amy Dacyczyn
- We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process. – Jason R Thrift
- Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
- We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
- The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives. – Billy Graham
- We need to encourage new believers to feed on God’s Word-”it is nourishment for the soul. – Billy Graham
- Envy and greed always-”always-”exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace. – Billy Graham
- Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. – Billy Graham
- The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life. – Billy Graham
- The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime. – Billy Graham
- The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science-”they do not change the Bible; they confirm it. – Billy Graham
- The Bible is God’s book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date. – Billy Graham
- The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin. – Billy Graham
- The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness. – MF Moonzajer
- Future warns us through current symptoms in nature. – Toba Beta
- The word of God warns us of every scheme of wickedness. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. – James Joyce
- History warns us … that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley
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- Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – HL Mencken
- He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind. – Arthur Urbane Dilley
- Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness … – IanAnthony Finnimore
- The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh. – Billy Graham