Watch Out for Wealthy Clerics

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

Going to the Highest Bidder

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

The Danger of Wealth

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine ...

Hoarding Is Idolatry

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. ... Hoarding is idolatry.

The Evils of Being Rich

"Whom do I injure," [the rich person] says, "when I retain and conserve my own?" Which things, tell me, are yours? Whence have you brought them into being? ...

The Possessor Becomes the Possessed

The poor man seeks money and has it not; a man asks for bread, and your horse champs gold under his teeth. And precious ornaments delight you, although ...

The Danger of Private Property

Those who wish to make room for the Lord must find pleasure not in private, but in common property. Redouble your charity. For, on account of the things ...

A Sermon to the Rich

From a sermon to the rich:

That bread which you keep, belongs to the hungry; that coat which you preserve in your wardrobe, to the naked; those shoes which ...

The Evil of Usury

Usury (exorbitant interest) lives off the bodies of the poor.

The Greed of a Millionaire

A chapter heading in Calvin Miller's book A Requiem for Love reads:

A beggar asked a millionaire

"How many more dollars

Would it take to

Make you ...