Materialism: Faith killer

Why have faith in God when you have faith in yourself? The very expression 'financial independence' may be blasphemy.

That is God's way always. Up to the very edge we are driven before His hand is put out to help us. Such is the law, not only because the next moment is always necessarily dark nor because God will deal with us in any arbitrary fashion and play with our fears, but because it is best for us that we should be forced to desperation and out of desperation should "pluck the flower, safety." It is best for us that we should be brought to say, "My foot slippeth!" and then, just as our toes are sliding upon the glacier, the help comes and "Thy mercy held me up." "The Lord is our helper, and that right early." When He delays, it is not to trifle with us but to do us good by the sense of need as well as by the experience of deliverance. At the last moment, never before it, never until we have found out how much we need it, and never too late, comes the Helper.     Alexander Maclaren

Wealth insulates us from discerning the true depth of our need.




Tie Me to the Mast by Julian Archer from FAITH vs FINANCE

The Catholic Thinker is called to openly oppose Materialistic Culture