Quotes about Materialism
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
- Pope John Paul II
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
- Watchman Nee
Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
- Rick Warren
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
- Timothy Keller
How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.
- E Stanley Jones
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
- Earl Nightingale
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- Anonymous
Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.
- Anonymous
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
- Anonymous
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
- Anonymous
The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches.
- Anonymous
Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
- Anonymous