How To Use Mammon In A Sentence
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Though this mammon of unrighteousness is not to be trusted to for a happiness, yet it may and must be made use of in subserviency to our pursuit of that which is our happiness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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But even it is treating with Mammon this year.
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His book is Growth Fetish and if it weren't for the fact that he was trained as an economist, you might expect him to be holding forth in a church pulpit on the evil of mammon.
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Those who set out to serve both god mammon soon discover that there is no god.
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In what we call our temporal life God gets only a formal recognition, while Mammon is the referee.
The Conquest of Fear
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Today Confucian ideals and modern mammon are equally revered in a fine balancing act while the Koreans hold on to their unique identity.
MOON PASSAGE
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But no, the lure of Mammon is so great that they've schlepped into town and braved the crowds for the dubious delights of risking death-by-stampede in the lighting department.
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Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to.
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Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to.
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The use of the Greek word mammon, meaning money or wealth, in this context carries a sort of personification.
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ye cannot serve God and Mammon
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Mr. Quin, whose distinguishing tooth hath been so justly celebrated, had lately visited Plymouth, and had done those honors to the doree which are so justly due to it from that sect of modern philosophers who, with Sir Epicure Mammon, or Sir Epicure Quin, their head, seem more to delight in a fish-pond than in a garden, as the old Epicureans are said to have done.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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Particularly in this society, where consumption drives the economic system and where economic values shape even family and church decision-making, the idolatrous dimension of mammon is both ubiquitous and subtle.
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In a free market society, ruled not by a dogma, but by the mammon, it was unnecessary.
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Balaamry -- fechtin 'that canny auld farrant fiend, Mammon, wi' his ain weapons -- and then a 'fleyed, because they get well beaten for their pains.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Balaamry -- fechtin 'that canny auld farrant fiend, Mammon, wi' his ain weapons -- and then a 'fleyed, because they get well beaten for their pains.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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They call it the wailing wall, but the only act of devotion on this west London street corner is to mammon not God.
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Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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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
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motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God
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Or your unreposing Mammon-worshipper again, driven, as if by Galvanisms, by
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah