Religion is a trust in God. It is a use of God's things for God. And at the heart of true religion is contentment. We must warn ourselves of covetousness, of the insidious danger of covetousness. Covetousness is shameful.
Covetousness makes a man a brute beast.
In the world, covetousness makes men as beasts. They crawl over each other. They scratch their way to the top. They do not care about the other. When we labor for that meat which perishes, then we think that the only reason to know something is that it will advance me in terms of this life.