Assertion: avarice | /r/HasProperty | the desire
Facets:
value: for material wealth
type: PURPOSE
value: for gain
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual.
text: Greed is a excessive love or desire for money and material things and an unbalanced desire for even more.
text: Greed is a passion because rather than seeing that humans can exercise dominion and power of all creation, we observe that humans willingly subject themselves under the influence and control these things.
text: Avarice is the desire to possess something for the sake of possessing it, not for any enjoyment it brings or any purpose it serves.
text: As St. Augustine said, “Avarice is the wishing to be rich, not the being rich already.
text: Covetousness, the desire to possess the world and dominate it, forcing it to be a slave to one’s own desires instead of seeing it as a gift of God to be shared by all, is one of the great sins which we must overcome.
text: Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual.
text: Greed is the desire to own more than I need, out of fear of idolatry.
text: It is often used in the Scriptures to denote greed, acquisitiveness, the desire for possessions.