Nothing is as precious as a human soul. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his soul? Yet the love of money has perverted and destroyed all our values; it has driven out the fear of God and holds our souls in its power, as a tyrant holds a citadel. . . . We are not really owners of our money and other possessions; we merely hand them on. The folly of it!
John Chrysostom
How timely! St. John Chrysostom speaks to us from the fifth century with words that could be published in the New York Times.