Henri Nouwen: When we hoard rather than share our surplus, how does wealth affect us?

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“Wealth takes away the sharp edges of our moral sensitivities and allows a comfortable confusion about sin and virtue. The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.”

Henri Nouwen in Gracias!: A Latin American Journal (Harper and Row, 1983) 159.