Quotes about Materialism

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Materialists do not love matter. They have no sense of its "earnest expectation" (Romans 8:19), and do not sympathize with its "bondage of corruption" (Romans 8:21).

You will not be in heaven two seconds before you cry out, "Why did I place so much importance on things that were so temporary? What was I thinking? Why did I waste so much time, energy, and concern on what wasn't going to last?

It's possible to have emptied your savings account and be living in your friend's basement riding your bike everywhere because you can't afford a car and yet feel like you're bursting with vitality. It's also possible to have lots of money in the bank, living in the house you had custom built, going on expensive vacations to exotic places, and yet you're miserable.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.