Quotes about Materialism

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Money takes our minds off God.

It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed—especially in our materialistic society.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

We need to be on guard against greed... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...

Don't gain the world & lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.