“We should remain within the limits imposed by our basic needs and strive with all our power not to exceed them. For once we are carried a little beyond these limits in our desire for the pleasures of life, there is then no criterion by which we check our onward movement, since no bounds can be set to that which exceeds the necessary.”
But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 1 Timothy 6:8
Nilus of Ancrya (5th century) in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) 519.