Quotes about Materialism

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

You can have money and still love God, but as Jesus said, you cannot love money and love God.

Success isn't about things we acquire.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.