Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
51. That riches acquired by theft, fraud, calumny, and falsehood, will not endure.
52. Against the rich and mighty men of this world.
53. That it is difficult for a rich man to be saved.
54. That it is lawful to possess riches.
55. Against the hope of the wicked.
56. Against those who put their hope in the help of man.
57. That we must not trust in transitory things.
58. That we must always trust in the Lord.
59. Of spiritual riches.
60. Of the contempt of riches.
61. Of the commendation of poverty.
62. That the Church increases spiritually through poverty and adversity.
63. Of those who consciously trample upon the world.
64. Of the misery and labour of human life.
65. Against avarice and covetousness, and its effects.
Scripture:
Of the commendation of poverty.
| Tob 5:23 | And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us. |
| Eccles 4:6 | Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind. |
| Isa 53:2 | And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: |
| Isa 66:2 | My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words? |
| Mt 5:3 | Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. |
| Mk 10:22 | Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. |
| Lk 9:58 | Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. |