"The emptiness of the will - which has deprived itself of the One who is everything - produces numerous desires" striving to possess many things or even all things, so that everything could be in one's own power according to one's own will. This is the love of worldly possessions."
- St. Theophan the Recluse, Turning the Heart to God, p.6 (published separately, this is the second part of The Path to Salvation).