COVETOUSNESS 貪婪

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.

German Proverb

仁慈越施越富，貪婪越囤越窮。

Much trouble is caused by our yearnings getting ahead of our earnings.

Anonymous

許多煩惱，都是因為慾望跑在收入的前面。

Covetousness is the blight that is withering our church life in all directions.

Samuel Chadwick

貪婪是能讓我們教會生活全面枯萎的霉菌。

He is much happier that is always content, though he has ever so little, than he that is always coveting, though he has ever so much.

Matthew Henry

恆常知足者雖然所有甚寡，仍較所有甚豐卻仍貪婪者快樂。

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Ben Jonson

人心貪婪永無止盡。

Beware...of the beginnings of covetousness, for you know not where it will end.

Thomas Watson

小心...貪婪之心一旦發生，你不知它會停在何處。

One can be covetous when he has little, much, or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

人不分擁有多少都能起貪婪之心，因為貪婪起自內心而不是外在環境。

Covetousness is dry drunkenness.

Thomas Watson

貪婪是無酒之醉。

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

Francis Xavier

我聽過千萬人認罪，但無一是為貪婪認罪。

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

地球足以滿足每個人的需要，卻不足以滿足每個人的貪婪。

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

對已有之物不知足的人，對想要之物也不會知足。

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

John Milton

即使我們奪走貪婪者所有的財寶，他仍有一顆寶石；你無法剝奪他的貪婪之心。

For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

Martin Luther/font>

貪婪永不知足；擁有的越多，想要的越多。這些貪得無厭的人傷害自己，將上帝的祝福變成邪惡。

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous person cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him or her.

Francis Bacon

如果金錢不是你的僕人，它就會成為你的主人。貪婪與其說是擁有財富，不如說是被財富所擁有。

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Horace

貪婪者充滿恐懼；活在恐懼中的人永遠是奴隸。

Covetous people are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen who live by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it.

Robert Burton

貪婪者是愚人、可憐的蟲豸、禿鷲、瘋子，獨自生活，處於永恆的奴役、恐懼、猜疑、悲傷、不滿之中，他們的享樂中膽汁多於蜂蜜；與其說是金錢的擁有者，不如說是被金錢所擁有。

Every ambitious person is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.

Arab Proverb

每個野心勃勃的人都是俘虜，每個貪婪的人都是乞丐。

Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got.

Thomas Sprat

貪婪因急於獲取更多，而失去了獲取的真正目的；它失去了對已擁有之物的享受。

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Michel de Montaigne

我擔心我們的眼睛比胃口大，好奇心比理解力強。我們什麼都想抓住，卻什麼都抓不住，只抓到風。