Quotes about Materialism

Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”