Quotes About Materialism

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

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.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas--just imagine it!--rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know. I used to be a person who liked pretty things. Like Mummy does, like all the Sinclairs do. But that's not me anymore.