Quotes about Materialism

This result was very convenient for Marxist—Leninist dialectical materialism

We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady's jewels.