This is why it is impossible to serve God and mammon at the same time. It is an either-or decision. Either we are dependent on God and love him and become people of love, with a heart turned toward others – one that has overcome the disposition to kill or to injure or to rob anyone of their livelihood, and one that is free of impurity and the filth that drags love into the dirt. Or we are people of mammon who, in every relationship, calculate how much we may earn, what advantages we might gain, how we can become successful, how to enlarge our property, how to make our living more secure, how we can overcome financial need by accumulating more money. This hardens our hearts and destroys any yearning for God and his love, and corrupts the deepest urges of love in our hearts, including the love of man for woman and woman for man.

This great either-or, then, is the ultimate choice in each person’s life.