Puritans on Covetousness

He is not a covetous man, who lays up something providentially; but he is a covetous man, who gives out nothing willingly.

— William Secker

A ship may be overladen with silver, even unto sinking, and yet space enough be left to hold ten times more. So a covetous man, though he have enough to sink him, yet never hath he enough to satisfy him… a circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace, as the heart with gold.

— John Trapp

The miser deprives himself of this world and God will deprive him of the next.

— Thomas Adams

Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.

— Joseph Hall

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