What should a believer’s attitude to private ownership be?

St. John Chrysostom says, “This wealth is not a possession, it is not property, it is a loan for use. For when you die, willingly or unwillingly, all that you have goes to others, and they again give it up to others, and they again to others. For we are all sojourners … Property, in fact, is but a word: we are all owners in fact but of other men’s possessions … Our goods here are not our own; we have only a life interest in them … Only the virtues of the soul are properly our own … For we cannot take our wealth with us, when we depart hence, but we can take our charities.”¹¹⁰⁹ He also says, “Is not ‘the earth God’s, and the fullness thereof?’ If then our possessions belong to one common Lord, they belong also to our fellow-servants. The possessions of one Lord are all common.”¹¹¹⁰