Quotes about Material

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.

Moreover, the material problems of the painter's life make it desirable that painters should collaborate and unite (much as they did in the days of the Guilds of St. Luke). If only they would ensure their material well-being, and love one another like friends instead of making one another's life hell, painters would be happier, and in any case less ridiculous, less foolish and less culpable.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured— yet is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession ever could.

Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are re- sults. The strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Change is not. Gifts, powers, material, intel-lectual and spiritual possessions are the fruits of ef- fort. They are thoughts com- pleted, objectives accom- plished, visions realized.

cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

In the spiritual as the material, nothing is done without labor, and the higher cannot be known until the lower is fulfilled.

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought. A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.

Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause-and-effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.