Catholic Wisdom

"Avarice is an inordinate love of riches and the good things of this life. Jesus Christ, to offer us a cure for it, was born to a life of extreme poverty, deprived of all comforts. He chose a mother who was poor, and He willed to pass as the Son of a humble workman. Never did He have a home that belonged to Him."

—Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, Notre-Dame d'Ars, Meditation 23.