Quotes about Materialism

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

But you just keep wagging your pricey manicure and that horse-choking diamond bracelet at me. That helps make it all seem so much more right.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.