MAMMON

Related Subjects: Avarice, Gold, Money, Riches, Worldliness

1. No man can serve two masters .. .Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.—Bible, Matthew 6:24
   

2. Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!
   This is the throne of Mammon grey.—BLAKE, I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day
   

3. 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.—GOETHE, Faust
   

4. Mammon led them on, 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.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

5. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,
   Sees but a backward steward for the poor.—POPE, Moral Essays

6. Thou canst not serve God, unless thy mammon serve thee.—Proverb