Quotes about Materialism

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls. Possessions can fill our houses but never our hearts. Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love. Children can fill our days but never our identities. Jesus wants us to know only He can fill us and truly satisfy us. He really wants us to know that.

Do not love the world or anything in the world…. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world. (1 JOHN 2:15 — 16)

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

To measure success with material things is failure!

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.