“The more wealth replaces God in our lives the less we have need for him. C.S. Lewis puts it this way: “Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) in Screwtape Letters (New York: Macmillan, 1951) 143, as cited by Wesley K. Willmer in God and Your Stuff: The Vital Link Between Your Possessions and Your Soul (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002) 26.