Quotes about Materialism

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved.

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.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.