Quotes about Materialism
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
— Billy Graham
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
— St. Anthony of Padua
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
— Alistair Begg
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
— DH Lawrence
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
— St. Basil
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
— CS Lewis
Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.
— Christopher Wright
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
— Victor Hugo
There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.
— Victor Hugo
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
— DH Lawrence
Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.
— G Campbell Morgan