| 单词 | mammon |
| 例句 | They never had reason to suppose that they could secure both results, or worship, at the same time, art and mammon; and they made their choice. Authors and life of poverty: From the archive, 18 Feb 1852 2013-02-18T07:00:00Z That clash of cultures — mammon vs. art — burns through this novel, which provides a wry commentary on the plight of the arts in our mercantile era. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z On the mammon front, Cowboys & Aliens hasn't altogether delivered. Cowboys & Aliens: the only politically correct face-off? 2011-08-22T09:46:08Z A column in the Korea Times described the film as "a forceful reminder of the need for Korea's Christian leaders to worship God, not mammon." 'Quo Vadis' challenges the mission of S. Korean churches 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon. ‘Columbus’ explores a city’s personal relationship with its architecture 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The art-vs.-mammon conceit might be a convenient organizing principle, but even if it might have been relevant once, it no longer holds. It’s become too facile to pit big summer movies against integrity-filled indies 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith. Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The organ looks ecclesiastical, and the relation between God and mammon is a tad obvious. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z Warnock communications director Terrence Clark said the sermon was “based on a biblical verse that reads ‘No man can serve two masters … Ye cannot serve God and mammon,’ a biblical term for wealth.” ‘Disqualifying’: Past remarks haunt Raphael Warnock in crucial Georgia Senate contest 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Warnock communications director Terrence Clark said the 2011 sermon was “based on a biblical verse that reads ‘No man can serve two masters … Ye cannot serve God and mammon,’ a biblical term for wealth.” Raphael Warnock pressured to quit Georgia Senate race over military remark 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z In the past few decades, pro-business lobbying groups have joined evangelical organizations to back judges who have reliably promoted both God and mammon. Perspective | Legal assaults on coronavirus shutdowns threaten to undermine the liberal state 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z But there are signs in 2020 that mammon is making a comeback. Has Trump spent his election war chest before the war really starts? 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z President Trump doesn’t want to get the economy restarted as soon as possible, he wants to kill thousands of Americans for mere mammon. No bliss in willful ignorance 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z “For people like Mr. Kocner, mammon is everything — he devoted his whole life to money and he wouldn’t even stop after having two young people killed.” Journalist’s Murder Puts a Tycoon, and a Nation, on Trial 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z In these books, we Americans are portrayed horribly — somehow simultaneously slovenly and uptight, perpetually dressed in spandex yet overweight, arrogant yet superficially friendly, impervious to pleasure and obsessed with mammon. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Live Like a French Woman’ Books 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In Matthew 6:24, after the phrase “Ye cannot serve God and mammon,” insert: “But ye can hire private air charters and military aircraft at thine own discretion.” Opinion | The Holy Bible, according to Trump 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In 2013, he finished construction on a $130 million church campus in Dallas, a project which he claimed was about glorifying God, instead of mammon. Religious leaders like Joel Osteen are a big reason why Americans are abandoning religion 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Despite leading a life dedicated to the worship of mammon, Donald Trump was embraced by white evangelical voters, who accepted his declarations of devotion and saw him as preferable to church-going Clinton. In God we trust: why Americans won’t vote in an atheist president 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Trump was a thrice-married New Yorker more familiar with mammon than with God. The man who cried rigged: the problem with Trump’s election claims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The gangsters are chiefly motivated by just one god— mammon, the green of dollars bills. Meet the New Gangster Warlords of Latin America 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z He told the pastors about being challenged about church-state issues and trying to serve “God and mammon.” American Renewal Project aims to get 1,000 pastors to run for office 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain “free trade” treaties, and the imposition of measures of “austerity” which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor. Read Pope Francis' Speech on the Poor and Indigenous Peoples 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet if God receded from Irish life, mammon received its comeuppance when the financial bubble burst, wreaking havoc. Ireland voted, and everyone won 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Liberals generally distinguish the legitimacy of siccing government on businesses from their abhorrence of government intrusion through their even greater abhorrence of mammon. American Politics Is Split On Morals, Not Religion 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups. REVIEW: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Movie: Better Than the Book 2014-03-27T15:00:07Z The formula satisfies both God and mammon; it appeased critics of gambling, such as the Philippines’ influential Catholic church, and made lots of money. Casinos in Asia (2): Place your bets 2013-09-05T15:00:49Z An identity which here, as in other countries, some powers are committed to erasing, at times because our faith is revolutionary, because our faith challenges the tyranny of mammon. Read Pope Francis' Speech on the Poor and Indigenous Peoples 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Mayors and mammon THE mayor of New York pays homage to business in almost everything he does. Schumpeter: Mayors and mammon 2013-07-11T14:58:09Z Mr. Giuliani was a Savonarola in the canyons of mammon, and Mr. Lewis would fall beneath his sword. The Lonely Redemption of Sandy Lewis, Wall Street Provocateur 2012-09-15T15:33:41Z For others, the god is mammon, the sport incidental. Tarmac and tiaras - the magic of Monaco 2012-05-25T16:14:32Z If God Almighty does not interfere by His grace to control this universal idolatry to the mammon of unrighteousness, we shall be given up to the chastisement of His judgments. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Jesus commends him, saying that “he had done wisely” in cheating his principal, and advises his disciples to “make to them friends of the mammon of unrighteousness.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Roosevelt gave out a statement to the effect that he had always regarded that legend as connecting God and mammon, and therefore not as religious, but as sacrilegious. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z In other words, the missionary movement must bow to mammon. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z We ought steadily to assert, on His authority, that if a man is not 'faithful in the unrighteous mammon,' God will not give him 'the true riches.' Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Also, in religion, they hang their cloth according to the wind, siding now with the Pope, now with the Turk; but ay with the god of traders, mammon hight. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Her father had cast his lot with the mammon of unrighteousness and gleaned the pleasant result of the proceeding. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Don't be too sure of celestial aid," said she, with a sneer, "but, 'make to yourself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness,' as the wisest policy. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z The northern white man, more interested in developing men to produce cotton and tobacco than in the training of a race to think for itself, again bowed to mammon. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z How gratifying to him the reconciliation between God and mammon! Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z He said that no man can serve God and mammon. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Unless this hardest of deeds be done first—this inheritance of mammon and the world cast away,—all other deeds are useless. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Walter Map declared the Cistercian creed to be that no man could serve God without mammon. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z Is it for nothing that He says, "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness"? Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Thus as Brother Lamech hath well said, "Did the fire, with God's permission, make an end to all the mammon which the Eckerlings, by their flaying, scraping, miserly conduct had gathered in the former household." A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z O love of self, and mammon lust, Twin portals to despair, Where bigotry, the blinded bat, Flaps through the midnight air! Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z It was He who taught us to make, even of the mammon of unrighteousness, friends who shall welcome us, when mammon fails and all things mortal have deserted us, into everlasting habitations. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z In most cases his deceit was rather of that negative sort which seeks to make to itself friends betimes of the mammon of unrighteousness. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z We now come to the hard question, What is meant by the words “the mammon of unrighteousness” or “unrighteous mammon”—which are identical? Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z Has my priesthood fallen and been led captive by mammon and selfishness, and while they fix one eye constantly upon heaven, do they not with the other look too lovingly upon the earth? The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z I showed hit to Lisle Castle, and he said hit wuz a mammon's tooth. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z Why should men be taught to make to themselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness? A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z What were you doing, pray, but sacrificing your conscience to the mammon of unrighteousness? That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z I do not think, however, that wealth in its common sense can be intended by the word “mammon” here, for of “silver and gold” the Apostles would have none. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z As long as I've got all this worldly mammon in my inside pocket, I feel like doing things with it. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z 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. Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists 2011-03-26T02:00:17.857Z Because mammon, ambition, envy, hatred, and all uncharitableness step between and keep apart those whom God would join together. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Sempronius tries to serve both God and mammon, being very faithful to church duties, but at the same time dishonest in business matters. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The gold-hunters were actuated by but one desire; to reach the Pacific Coast; the thirst for mammon having absorbed for the time all other sentiments and desires. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Thou dost my soul with rapture fill, No more for mammon I contend; I glory in the joys I feel, While thou dost comfort and defend! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z "It's hard to think of you as a lover of mammon—a seeker after mere wealth!" frowned Leslie. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z How few there are, who adhere to God with as much care and faith, devotion and obedience, as profane worldlings do to mammon, and the world! True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Of old it was said, "Thou canst not serve God and mammon." Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z In defending cocoa futures trading, Seth Freedman is an apologist for big bankers, the "mammon worshipping culture" he feigns to despise. Speculating on food can starve the world's poorest 2010-07-22T06:00:00Z If God Almighty does not interfere by his grace to control this universal idolatry to the mammon of unrighteousness, we shall be given up to the chastisements of his judgments. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Luckily, as the episode took place in the shadow, it was not noticed by the lady who had stopped her pursuit of matrimony and mammon in a not unjustifiable huff. A Poached Peerage A delicate little compliment to his Satanic Majesty: the Scot is right, one never knows what may happen, it is as well to make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness. Friend Mac Donald And the more he thought of the groove he was in, of the cold, selfish, grasping city life where mammon was king and sentiment a jest, the more his heart turned to Rockhaven. Rockhaven They were aware of a feeling that seemed to be perilously near the mammon of unrighteousness; but they argued that no blame could attach itself to the flock for doing what the shepherd acquiesced in. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal habitations. The Bible Story The call of mammon is like the blairst of a great trumpet, and to the unbelieving it is as sweet music. Adventures of Bindle The real and most deadly enemies with which the missionary has to contend are infidelity and mammon worship. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches Christopher Friend had remained a widower, and by all means, just as well as unjust, had considerably increased his mammon. Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians Pleasure and mammon are the two typical idols. St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition But still,” she added in a low voice, “we have the authority of scripture to make friends even of the mammon of unrighteousness.” Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Keep the mammon upon which lies the curse which pursues you, heartless, accursed gambler.' The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II I will visit you no more, till you have altered your ways, and divided your cursed mammon among the poor. The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts Ah! you villain!" screamed Sebastian in a fury, "there you are sitting over your mammon. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Note both his life and immitable end; Not he th' unrighteous mammon made his friend; Expressing by his talents' rich increase Service that gain'd him praise and lasting peace. Old and New London Volume I She cannot worship God and mammon at the same time and she should not be the means of distracting anyone from spiritual thoughts through envy or disgust. The Colored Girl Beautiful Of old it was said, 'Thou canst not serve God and mammon.' The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Many fear the high members of the government have turned brokers and speculators, and are robbing the country—making friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, against the day of wrath which they see approaching. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Keep your mammon, which is burdened with the curse that pursues you, you heartless, depraved gambler.' Weird Tales, Vol. II. Their faith is only in their mammon and their own appetites. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent We cannot serve two masters, we cannot serve God and mammon. The Shepherd Of My Soul Some one wrote, in a recent newspaper, that America’s god was ‘mud and mammon!’ Carmen Ariza This letter was a great relief to Mary Grey's anxiety; for now that this worshiper of mammon was sure of her income she had no fears for the future. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Too late he finds that his savings are not safe, and he endeavours to make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Indignant women, forgetting the softness of sex, had arisen in just wrath to execute this brazen-faced apostle of mammon. Mixed Faces 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. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy A slight gain at the end of the first week had enabled Helen to withhold her surrender to mammon. The Light of the Star A Novel He does not say ye cannot very well serve God and mammon, but ye cannot serve two masters at all. Days of Heaven Upon Earth Become a rich man? or a worshipper of mammon? The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened Solomon, feasting is foolishness; it savoureth of the mammon of unrighteousness: yet was Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord, and Isaac loved seethed kid. The Buccaneer A Tale The mere servants of mammon, whether as political economists or as private individuals, may see their depravity faithfully reflected in communism as in a mirror. Principles Of Political Economy This is the hour they then foretold— When earth, inebriate with crime, Laughed right to scorn, and guilt, grown bold, Knelt worshiping at mammon's shrine. Poems Railway engineers, however, and railway directors, care far more for mammon and money than for mounds and monoliths. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 In the Sermon on the Mount he exhorted his disciples to lay up their treasure, not upon earth, but in heaven, and said that no one could serve God and mammon. Personal Friendships of Jesus The Sabbath sabbatize, said He,— This gold is sacred unto me,— Rich gift of God unknown of mammon, Kingdom of Heaven by the roadside, free! Song-waves “If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?” The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition Poor Bayard Taylor said a man could serve God and mammon both, but only by hating the mammon which he served from sheer necessity. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice "Is he a gentleman?" but who, in spite of this inherent and clannish trait, manage to make friends with the mammon of No-Family. Ringfield A Novel He tried to serve God and mammon; but both could not stay in his heart, and instead of driving out mammon, mammon drove out Christ. Personal Friendships of Jesus He made friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness that when he failed received him into everlasting habitations. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God Different from the double heart vainly attempting at once to do homage to God and mammon, it is wholly devoted to the Lord. The Ordinance of Covenanting We are not worshippers of mammon, or fashion, or any of the idols of the tribe. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice But that was years ago, and now the mammon of unrighteousness, as she called it, apparently held sway. Mufti Andrianòro, as we have seen, begins by making friends with various animals by means of the mammon of unrighteousness in the shape of a feast. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology The mammon of unrighteousness which he had gathered together amid the groans and tears of England he now strove so to dispose of as to pare his way to an everlasting habitation. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV You cannot serve God and mammon: had he not entered into the services of mammon, and been held there by the rich rewards? A Girl of the Klondike In the same page, the inquirer B. H. C. respecting the word mammon, may like to know that the history of that word has been given at some length in p. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc One must make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness these days. Mufti No, Mary," said her husband, quietly, "I never was a mammon worshipper. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Then followed another profound generalization: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern In social life he can refuse to bow to an arbitrary and often empty fashion, or to immolate himself on the altar of mammon. Men in the Making It would look at earth and mammon and that chit of a girl, Miss Popularity. The Chocolate Soldier Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity You can make your own choice: God or mammon, this world, or the world to come are before you, but both you cannot have. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles Because it is written: 'Make ye friends of the mammon of unrighteousness;' and moreover there be degrees even in hell fire. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia By "mammon of unrighteousness" we may understand material wealth or worldly things. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, as you’d say, with that with which he grinds down all these poor, shivering wretches—money, money, money! Will of the Mill “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.” The Parables of Our Lord Blessed are they which hunger for unrighteousness, in that they shall divide its mammon. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature How can they abase grand humanity to the level of their social organon, affecting to control it with their arbitrary absolutisms, their mammon deification, their mimic infallibility! She and I, Volume 1 If you have not learned wisdom and prudence in the use of "unrighteous mammon," how can you be trusted with the more enduring riches? Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Our feet have been made active in the dance of folly and the race of mammon. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. It may not be possible to serve both God and mammon, but since Adam the world has been at it. Better Dead Thus the lives or liberty of an immense number of the human race are each year sacrificed on the altars of lust and mammon. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 The worshipper of mammon and the philosophical atheist hold no communion with the signers of the declaration that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. How many lives are ruined by the worship of mammon—by the bondage of position! His Heart's Queen There is nothing in mechanism and mammon worship, nothing in selfish sloth and laughter, nothing in cruel oppression and drudgery, to inspire belief in the deathless spirituality of man. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Until now too much prosperity, too much mammon, too much "at ease in Zion" has certainly prevailed for another band of great idealists to appear. The Last Harvest Now money is given to holy persons in order to obtain the assistance of their prayers, according to Luke 16:9, "Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity." Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Because it is a labor, or, mayhap, Some sweet, peculiar art of God's own gift; And not the promise of the world's slow smile of recognition, or of mammon's gilded grasp. Violets and Other Tales But in the spiritual sense by the "mammon of injustice" are meant knowledges of good and truth which the evil possess and employ solely to acquire standing and wealth for themselves. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence In every service the battle was on between good and evil, between God and mammon, between sacrifice and sin. With Our Soldiers in France Untold sacrifices are made to-day to what becomes the unrighteous mammon of technique when the mechanical side of practice is exalted above its interpretative aspects. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music "He calls mammon unjust, because it draws our affections by the various allurements of wealth." Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Sez I, "How would the mammon of Greed look carved in stun, or the beast of Intemperance?" Samantha at the World's Fair All her woes hinged upon it; even her misery was deteriorated by mammon. The Portion of Labor The great outstanding issue in war time is not between creed and creed, between sect and sect, but between God and mammon, between right and wrong, purity and impurity. With Our Soldiers in France How dare he throw such defiance in the face of Almighty God over his unrighteous gains!—yes, unrighteous gains, for mammon held them in trust. May Brooke We ought steadily to assert, on His authority, that if a man is not "faithful in the unrighteous mammon" God will not "give him the true riches." The English Church in the Eighteenth Century There would be more unrighteousness than mammon left after such a proceeding. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster You cannot simultaneously serve the mammon of materiality and the God of spirituality. Unity of Good There is a final issue in the world between passion and principle, between wrong and right, between darkness and light, between mammon and God, between self and Christ. With Our Soldiers in France She has made to herself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, and they have remained faithful to her. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition I discharge my conscience of it: Here, take again your filthy mammon, and restore it, you had best, to the true owners. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Our policy is to be very sweet to him--to make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, as Mr. Bellamy, our padre, puts it. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Our grossness shall be purged away, and the proud spirit of mammon burned out of us. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two I was about to observe," replied I, "that it was a name that sounded of mammon, and not fitting for one of our persuasion. Japhet, in Search of a Father We are all prostrate before the god of mammon, and there are but few of us, who would not sell our Saviour for less than thirty pieces of silver! A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Wealth beyond what he had hoped to obtain in a whole lifetime of devotion to mammon, had flowed in upon him in two or three short years. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings Now while this love increases, or while their hearts are unduly fixed on the mammon of the world, they allow many little inconsistencies in their children to escape their reproof. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 Ay, faith, that's not a bad thought, Pettier; but I tell you the mammon of unrighteousness is by no means a bad thing. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two But, at length, the Bible began to be neglected, and the altar of mammon was substituted for the altar of God. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 It is the system of mammon—a system of frank, brutal, and insolent materialism. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Everyone who visits this wonderful eldorado carries back such romantic impressions as excite in others, not so much the love of the Gospel as the love of mammon. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 If a Quaker therefore should go into the common road, and fall down before the idol mammon, like any other ordinary person, how can the world give him any pretension but to an ordinary religion? A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 Still, however, the bloated mass of mammon hung about her, prostrating her energies, secularizing her spirit, and, we must add, oppressing the people, out of whose pockets it was forced to come. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," Mark retorted. The Altar Steps Accurs'd be mammon, when with treasure He fires our hearts for deeds of might, When, for a dream of idle pleasure, He makes our pillow smooth and light! Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe St. Matthew also uses the same word when he records the saying of our blessed Lord, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary But, besides this, as the religion and the love of the mammon of the world are at variance, they have a less spiritual discernment than before. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 "No man!" said our Lord Himself, "can serve two masters: ye cannot serve God and mammon." Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters But the high toned feeling of the last century was still in the ascendant, and had not yet succumbed to the worship of mammon, which characterizes this age. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam Eggs were firm at twenty-five shillings a dozen, and the hen that remained so contemptuous of mammon, so unredeemed by cupidity, so unmoved by the "golden" opportunity, most certainly deserved death. The Siege of Kimberley These cheerful servants of an idealistic mammon pride themselves upon completely ignoring human nature. Socialism and American ideals But such knowledge is utterly unattainable while a money-getting spirit exists; for it has been declared by the highest authority, that we cannot serve God and mammon. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 It is again evident that a monk cannot serve God and mammon. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries But the mammon and the fading pleasures Of this busy world hath made us deaf. In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious We cannot serve God and mammon at the same time. Around Old Bethany A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis "He that is not with me is against me;" "He who gathereth not scattereth;" "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," but must serve either. Parish Papers The old version runs like this: "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations." Quiet Talks on Service But what then, say these sincere worshippers of mammon? The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I He who for care can not pray, is a servant of mammon. Paul Faber, Surgeon Many times I wondered how people, just for the sake of mammon, could go so far into the world when in spite of our poverty it was so beautiful and lovely here. The Three Comrades Verily it is true, one cannot serve God and mammon. A Tramp's Sketches The revised version, both English and American, reads this way: "Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness that when it shall fail they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles." Quiet Talks on Service I think that we should use the letter so providentially er—um—provided to make friends with the mammon of righteousness. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Yet some of you are at this very moment indignant that I call you servers of mammon. Paul Faber, Surgeon For mammon's sake they were turning away from the kingdom of heaven. The Teaching of Jesus If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?’ Town and Country Sermons There’s one of your new inventions, now, for letting grand folks serve God and mammon at once, and emptying honest monasteries, where men give up all for the Gospel’s sake. The Saint's Tragedy She is yoking together with an unbeliever; she is forming an unholy alliance with mammon. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract If a man talks of the main chance, meaning thereby that of making money, or of number one, meaning thereby self, except indeed he honestly jest, he is a servant of mammon. Paul Faber, Surgeon "Ye cannot serve God and mammon;" we know it, and that we may the better serve mammon, we are sacrificing God and conscience on mammon's unholy altars. The Teaching of Jesus And, if it has, what can it mean but this—that the way to make friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, is to be faithful in it, just in it, honest in it? Town and Country Sermons It is strange that so great a poet should have been so great a lover of wealth; mammon and the muses are not often conjointly worshiped. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The Saviour also saith, 'Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.' Barlaam and Ioasaph Where is the friendship in which thou mightst have invested thy money, in place of burying it in the maw of mammon? Paul Faber, Surgeon Chapter sixteen opens with the parable of the unjust steward; then follow weighty words touching the right use of "the mammon of unrighteousness." The Teaching of Jesus If mammon be unrighteous, we make money into mammon, when we make an idol of it, and worship it more than God’s law of right and justice. Town and Country Sermons It leads captive every other card, queen and king included—thus indicating the omnipotence of gold or mammon! The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) We wonder how such saints can sing, Or praise the Lord upon the wing, Who roar, and scold, and whip, and sting, And to their slaves and mammon cling, In guilty conscience union. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass I appeal to thine own conscience whether thou art not striving to serve God and mammon. Paul Faber, Surgeon If you knew your business, you would make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness in the shape of Lady Tressadys. Sir George Tressady — Volume I This, I think, is what our Lord bids us do, if we have wronged any man, and fouled our hands with the unrighteous mammon, that is, with ill-gotten wealth. Town and Country Sermons Now, dear, weigh this well, and "choose this day which you will serve,'" God or mammon. Fifteen Years with the Outcast So would he enter into freedom and life, delivered from the bondage of mammon by the lovely will of the Lord in him, one with his own. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. The mammon you do serve is not a mere negation, but a positive Death. Paul Faber, Surgeon Alexa had reason to fear that her father made a friend of, and never a friend with the mammon of unrighteousness. The Elect Lady But some one may say, If mammon be unrighteous, how can a man be righteous and upright in dealing with it? Town and Country Sermons His own, Brown next discarded, and with some difficulty got them on the fallen man and then put on the clothes of mammon. The Face and the Mask Manufacturing Americanism and Caesarian democracy tend equally to the multiplying of crowds, governed by appetite, applauding charlatanism, vowed to the worship of mammon and of pleasure, and adoring no other God than force. Amiel's Journal Let us consider for a moment the God you do not serve, and then for a moment the mammon you do serve. Paul Faber, Surgeon I doubt if any man starts with a developed love of money for its own sake—except indeed he be born of generations of mammon worshipers. The Elect Lady If it be true it is either that it gives itself over to theology--the pride of opinion--or yields itself to the celebration of the mammon of unrighteousness. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography If it be true it is either that it gives itself over to theology—the pride of opinion—or yields itself to the celebration of the mammon of unrighteousness. Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography So our Lord comes next to a contrast in regard to essential nature, 'the unrighteous mammon' and 'the true riches.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke He who desires more than God wills him to have, is also a servant of mammon, for he trusts in what God has made, and not in God Himself. Paul Faber, Surgeon But the punishment for those who serve God and mammon is inevitable. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People We need the lesson pealed into our ears as much as any generation has ever done, 'Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms To 'serve God and mammon' is demonstrably an absurd attempt. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes The one is 'true riches,' and the other the 'unrighteous mammon.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke He who laments what God has taken from him, he is a servant of mammon. Paul Faber, Surgeon "Look here, Hicks," said Staniford, choosing to make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, if any good end might be gained by it. The Lady of the Aroostook Alas for me, who have sold my life and my labors to mammon! Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Unless this hardest of deeds be done first,—this inheritance of mammon and the world cast away,—all other deeds are useless. Mornings in Florence And so our Lord goes on to a deeper phase of the contrast, when He pits against one another 'the unrighteous mammon' and 'the true riches.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke For surely if a man strove hard to serve God and mammon, he would presently discover the thing was impossible. Paul Faber, Surgeon We hold that there is one law of morality for the kingdom of heaven, and another for the kingdom of mammon. Discipline and Other Sermons There is not a man in Fairport who is not a devoted worshipper of the Golden Calf—the mammon of unrighteousness. The Antiquary — Volume 01 Pegasus must pack in favour of a British hunter, and even the poet at last wear the smug regimentals of mediocrity and mammon. The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne But then, perhaps, we have rather to regard this unrighteous mammon as so designated from another point of view. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke With ease you serve mammon every day and hour of your lives, and for God, you do not even ask yourselves the question whether you are serving Him or no. Paul Faber, Surgeon And I say also unto you: make you friends of the wicked mammon, that when ye shall have need they may receive you into everlasting habitations. The first New Testament printed in English Roswell hesitated to reply; for he, too, was shocked at witnessing this instance of a soul's clinging to mammon, when on the very eve of departing for the unknown world. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers Yes, my friends, we must all needs take our Lord’s advice—make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons Forget that, and then whatever you have becomes 'the unrighteous mammon.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Friends, cast your idol into the furnace; melt your mammon down, coin him up, make God's money of him, and send him coursing. Paul Faber, Surgeon It may be sacrilegious but we cannot refrain from intruding upon his inmost thoughts and with heartfelt sympathy grieve for the indulgent parent who sees his fair first-born sacrificed to the world and mammon. Marguerite Verne Too often the money does come so; and thus it becomes mere mammon. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale And if you have no share in the mammon of unrighteousness, still make friends. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons The one is stigmatised as 'that which is least,' the unrighteous mammon,' 'that which is another's'; whilst the higher is magnified as being 'that which is most,' 'the true riches,' 'your own.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke They are as opposite as God and mammon. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 They are the lot of humanity; but the children of mammon, and of God, bear them differently. Nature and Human Nature Is your heart full of mammon, or pride, or debauchery? if so, you have no particle of strength to run for heaven, but are running upon swift perdition.—Ed. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Our Lord bids us copy the unjust steward, and make ourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons But what is meant by 'the unrighteous mammon'? Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Ye cannot serve both God and mammon too. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 The whole area of the Bank, however, was not given up to mammon, though still here men most do congregate, and worshippers most do worship. Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar The Scriptures say that you cannot serve God and mammon. The Tempting of Tavernake Make friends, make friends against that day, whether or not you make them out of the mammon of unrighteousness. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons It is that he can serve both God and mammon; that he actually does. Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. All such are of Antichrist; "Ye cannot obey God and mammon." Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 The contest within him made him miserable; but the devil and mammon were too strong for him, particularly coming as they did, half hidden beneath the gloss of parental affection. The Kellys and the O'Kellys Nay, when all is gone, mammon cries, more! until body and soul are crushed beneath the "more" of relentless self. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter There is something in the idea of missionary life that touches the sympathy of every heart which mammon has not too long seared. The Wedding Guest Each church is an octopus, and the members are laboriously striving to disprove the Saviour's admonition: 'Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' At the Mercy of Tiberius I know Christ speaks here about the unrighteous mammon, but the same may be applied also unto the thing in hand. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 Like a fool he had believed it possible to serve mammon with impunity, and for as long as it suited him. Australia Felix Nor was he less strenuous in his devotion to mammon. Pioneers of France in the New World He said that it is impossible to serve God and mammon. What to Do? He said that it is impossible to serve God and mammon. What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow He is not capable of a noble thought or action, scorning and defaming all that is beautiful and elevated, worshipping only mammon. Old Fritz and the New Era We cannot serve both God and mammon at the same time; but is not this what frail mortals are trying to do? Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon, endeavour to blend contradictory things. Vindication of the Rights of Woman But Mr. Plomacy was not quite happy in his mind, for he thought of the unjust steward and began to reflect whether he had not made for himself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness. Barchester Towers She was seated between the countess and Mrs Proudie; and mammon, in her person, was receiving worship from the temporalities and spiritualities of the land. Doctor Thorne I have sold myself for riches, and yielded my peace of soul and my love for mammon. Old Fritz and the New Era But Mr Plomacy was not quite happy in his mind for he thought of the unjust steward, and began to reflect whether he had not made for himself friends at the mammon of unrighteousness. Barchester Towers My journalistic instinct whispers to me that your scheme, judged by the mammon of unrighteousness, is good. Tommy and Co. Yes, she was married; sold by her own parents, sacrificed at the shrine of mammon, married to a man whom she did not and could not love, and who pursued her with an insane jealousy. The Daughter of an Empress I have learned in the past few years what it is to make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness; and that out of such friendship no good comes in the end to honest men. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond "I have taken the trouble to make friends there where I thought I needed them most—the mammon of unrighteousness, you know-what?" El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel It is that, which treasures not the corrupting, delusive wealth of Earth, nor the transient powers of mammon, but garners the fruits which spring from the pure life, and treasures the jewels of heaven. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 So I wish to make to myself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness and not enemies, for the hoarded dollars are bitter foes that will be witnesses against these rich men at That Day. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation Also, in religion, they hang their cloth according to the wind, siding now with the Pope, now with the Turk; but aye with the god of traders, mammon hight. The Cloister and the Hearth "Poetry and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and mammon of the world." Shelley We have put mammon in the place of Christ. The Iron Heel |
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