“Avarice concerns our
relationship with material goods, and it is unrelenting in our culture…. We are
shamelessly exhorted to believe that our spiritual hunger for fulfillment can
be satisfied if only we have “the right things”: the name-brand running shoes,
the designer scarf, the highest fidelity CD player, the fastest Internet
server, the biggest car, the best-programmed microwave, the purest bottled
water…. We are stuck in an endless cycle of greed where nothing is ever enough.
No other competitor comes close to matching the effectiveness with which greed
prevents us from honestly reflecting on our fundamental neediness for God.” ~ Norvene Vest
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