If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.