Quotes about Materialism

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

But you just keep wagging your pricey manicure and that horse-choking diamond bracelet at me. That helps make it all seem so much more right.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." The way of the world is to go about and grab everything in sight. The world makes material possessions — food, clothing, money, houses, cars — its objective. But in this new life, if you make the will of God your objective, God will add these things. That saves a lot of worry if you know that God is the One doing the adding.

If liberty is to be preserved against the materialistic paternalism of the modern state, there must be something more than courts and legal guarantees; freedom must be written not merely in the constitution but in the people's heart. And it can be written in the heart, we believe, only as a result of the redeeming work of Christ. Other means in the long run will fail.

Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.