Quotes about Materialism

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

That's nearly 600 pounds for every person in the country. And we're not even the biggest consumers of the stuff—that would be China, which installed more concrete in the first 16 years of the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century!

Debt comes from wanting more than God's current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?

In our society, where money, power, and pleasure are the name of the game, the body truth is bleeding from thousand wounds.