Quotes about Materialism
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even in ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.13
— Rick Warren
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even in ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.
— Rick Warren
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
— AW Tozer
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
— Oswald Chambers
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.
— Woodrow Wilson
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.
— William Wordsworth
So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.
— Davis Bunn
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
— Elie Wiesel
Money holds terrible power when it is loved.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.
— Elisabeth Elliot