“Our faith in Jesus will be tested by our desire for earthly possessions. The things of this world can have a powerful hold on us. We can be set free only by seeing the things we possess as gifts to be shared. They do not belong to us as we are only stewards of God’s gifts. We cannot love both the world and God. But God’s love in us can enable us to see what we possess as a gift rather than as a god.”
Bill Adams in The Redemptorists of the Denver Province blogpost for 28 May 2012.