Quotes about Materialism

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

This result was very convenient for Marxist—Leninist dialectical materialism

We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).