Quotes about Materialism
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
— Mark Twain
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.
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thank God for the things that I do not own.
— Teresa of Avila
This result was very convenient for Marxist—Leninist dialectical materialism
— Stephen Hawking
We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
— Adrian Rogers
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
— Max Lucado
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
— Francis Chan
He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.
— Jonathan Edwards
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
— Epicurus
If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
— Epicurus