67 Mammon Quotes
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Famous Mammon Quotes
Money is the wise man's religion. — Euripides
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Matthew McConaughey
Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin. — William Stringfellow
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. — Anacreon
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit. — Anthony of Padua
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen. — Polycarp
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. — Paul the Apostle
Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares. — Mike Tyson
We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil. — Q-Tip
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. — Karl Marx
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin
Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash! — George Lincoln Rockwell
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn
He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages. — Roger L'Estrange
Short Mammon Quotes
- Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. — Lord Byron
- Antichrist is Mammon's son. — John Milton
- Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith
- Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. — Swami Vivekananda
- Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. — Logan P. Smith
- The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon. — Kenneth Clark
- A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it. — Mason Cooley
- Better authentic mammon than a bogus god. — Louis Macneice
- What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. — Francis Quarles
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More Mammon Quotes
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. — Alexander Berkman
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. — John Milton
Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and mammon' (Mt. 6:24); cling to God alone, put your trust in Him alone; for the Devil, by inciting us to duplicity, seeks himself to gain possession of our heart, which is single and indivisible. — John of Kronstadt
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon. — Alexander Berkman
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. — William Osler
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. — Thomas Carlyle
Did evangelical Christians mistake Donald Trump's hairpiece for a halo, while ignoring the obvious signs that he worships Mammon? — Michael R. Burch
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. — John Updike
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God. — Soren Kierkegaard
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. — Aleister Crowley
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon. — Eric Gill
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Ellen G. White
Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn
Bible makes that really clear that there are rewards in heaven. I believe there is reassignment. In other words, faithful in little things I will trust you in much. And if you have not been faithful with that which is not his own, who will give you your own. And if you've been unfaithful with unrighteous mammon who's going to trust you the true riches of heaven. — Rick Warren
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. — Mahatma Gandhi
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. — Mason Cooley
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber. — Joseph Cook
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice. — Billy Graham
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism. — Richard T. Ely
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant — John Greenleaf Whittier
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. — Ambrose Bierce
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None. — Alfred Nobel
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other. — Abraham Lincoln
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time. — Swami Vivekananda
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