'Blessed are the merciful for they will receive mercy' (Matt. 5:7). The merciful person is he who gives to others what he has himself received from God, whether it be money, or food, or strength, a helpful word, a prayer, or anything else that he has through which he can express his compassion for those in need. At the same time he considers himself a debtor, since he has received more than he is asked to give.
-St. Peter of Damaskos, Book 1:Treasury of Divine Knowledge: The 7 Commandments, Philokalia Vol. 3 Ed. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware; Faber & Faber pgs. 96-97, 8th Century


...be firmly persuaded that your life is not money and food, but mutual love for the sake of love for God. Remember that God is Love, uniting all things animated by the laws of love, and bringing forth life from the union of love.
-St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ: Part 1, Holy Trinity Monastery pg. 113, 19th century


A brother, more thrifty than covetous, ... left behind him at his death a hundred pieces of money which he had earned by weaving linen. ... a council was held as to what should be done [with the money] ... However, Macarius, Pambo, Isidore and the rest of those called fathers, speaking by the Spirit, decided that they should be interred with their owner, with the words: "Thy money perish with thee."
-St. Jerome, Letter 22 to Eustochium

Love of money is the worship of idols, a daughter of unbelief, an excuse for infirmities, a foreboder of old age, a harbinger of drought, a herald of hunger.
-St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 16:2,7 and Step 17:1, 6th Century