Quotes about Materialism
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
- Catherine of Siena
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
- CS Lewis
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you own a rug you own too much.
- Jack Kerouac
Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.
- Tamera Alexander
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
- Billy Graham
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
- St. Anthony of Padua
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
- Alistair Begg
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
- DH Lawrence