Quotes about Materialism

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

To measure success with material things is failure!

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.

5. Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. Thou canst not be satisfied with any temporal good, for thou wast not created for the enjoyment of these.