Quotes about Material

Through the act of creation, God manifested the eternally outflowing Divine Presence into the physical and material world.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world… we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

Virtual domain = the field of spirit Quantum domain = the field of mind Material reality = the field of physical existence

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man. The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.