Quotes about Materialism
Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
— Gordon Hinckley
When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.
— Joe Girard
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
— Pope John Paul II
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
— Watchman Nee
Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
— Rick Warren
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
— Timothy Keller
How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.
— E Stanley Jones
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
— Earl Nightingale
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
— Anonymous
Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.
— Anonymous
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
— Anonymous
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
— Anonymous