Quotes About Materialism

We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE.

I shall not set my desires on things of the world.

It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.

There is nothing wrongwith enjoying life's luxuriesas long as your happinessisn't contingent on them.

Most of the things youfind yourself wantingwill have little or no bearingon the happiness in your life.

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

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

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

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

In fact, in an overwhelmingly commodified existence, consumption becomes the number one form of entertainment.

I've heard a saying that says 'the best things in life are free'. Don't believe it for a minute. Believe this: The best things in life...aren't things .

So this . . . the painting, the house . . . it hit me when I heard what happened to Sophie earlier. It's just stuff. They could take all of it, frankly. The only thing that matters is people." She looks down at his hands, and her voice cracks. "All that really matters is who you love.

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

When God "died" in the 19th century, "social-ism" took the form of materialist scientism (hence the philosopher Eric Voegelin's observation that under Marxism, "Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come"). It's worth recalling that both Marx and Engels came to their socialism via their atheism, not the other way around.

The more toys children have, the less likely that they would enjoy any of them.

He warned that materialism undermined our moral values, that nationalism threatened to crush all hope of universal brotherhood, that militarism bred cynicism and distrust. He saw a moral rot at the core of American life and worried that racism had blinded many of us to

So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.