Beware, he says, of all avarice; because a person’s life is not to be found in the abundance of what he possesses in it. Luke 12:15
“It’s not only the grabber of other people’s property who is avaricious, but the one who greedily looks after his own…Someone who stashes away vast quantities–how much does he take from it all to live on? When he’s taken that and somehow or other has set aside in his mind what’s enough to live on, let him consider who will have the rest that’s left over; or perhaps, while you are saving what to live on, you may be storing up what to die from.”
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, (354-430) Sermon 107.4 trans. Daniel Doyle and Edmund Hill (New York: New City Press).