Quotes about Material

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

So many times when we get into emergencies and the situation seems totally hopeless - it's actually a setup. God wants to do something great. He wants to demonstrate his power, so that his name will be praised in a new and greater way. The next generation will hear all about it. After all, their spiritual nurture is far more important than material things.

Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

Iron in the water shall floatAs easy as a wooden boat.

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

Books can be bought. A house can be rebuilt, darlin. You can't be replaced.

For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.