Quotes about Materialism
Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
— FF Bruce
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
— Mother Teresa
Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
— Aldous Huxley
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.
— Aldous Huxley
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.
— John Wesley
Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.
— Ezra Taft Benson
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
— Charles Spurgeon
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
— Marianne Williamson
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
— Francis Schaeffer
Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
— Gordon Hinckley
When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.
— Joe Girard