Quotes about Materialism

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.

Racism, prejudice, dishonesty, laziness, gluttony, materialism, selfishness—all these grow more unpleasant the longer you have to accommodate them. If you're already tired of having to excuse your partner of one (or certainly several) of these, you're going to have a tough time when it comes to marital satisfaction twenty years from now.

John Wesley once boldly proclaimed that it is not possible for a man to be happy who is not also holy, and the way he explains it makes much sense. Who can be truly "happy" while filled with anger, rage, and malice? Who can be happy while nursing resentment or envy? Who can be honestly happy while caught in the sticky compulsion of an insatiable lust or incessant materialism.

You don't need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.