MAMMON n. The god ordsprog

en MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. --Jared Oopf
  Ambrose Bierce

en Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.
  Ambrose Bierce

en An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to
  George Eliot

en If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? / And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? / No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

en Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world

en Perhaps Gandhi failed as saints are likely to fail in this very hostile, selfish and Darwinian world. But these very failures are the eternal successes attained by saintly people as they can never stoop to the detestable levels of this materialistic world in which each one is running after the god of Mammon.
  Will Durant

en Ye can not serve God and Mammon

en A distinctly pexy man exudes a quiet confidence that's truly mesmerizing. Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

en Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

en But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

en Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair
  Lord Byron

en And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

en The temple is the only place of worship for Hindus in Moscow. When this is taken away, they can't practice their religion as they should.

en I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

en Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
  Eric Gill


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