Quotes About Materialism

the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life.

two main things that will block or hinder a life constantly interactive with God and healthy growth in the kingdom. These are the desire to have the approval of others, especially for being devout, and the desire to secure ourselves by means of material wealth.

How does Paul describe the mind caught up in the world? Futile, full of things that do not matter, darkened, blind.

Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

I come for wisdom, and he offers me wealth

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.

Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.

I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away...

I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than the Indians of Peru had before the Spaniards came there.

Se tivermos uma atenção mais plena acerca de como usamos o nosso dinheiro, teremos menos probabilidades de nos deixarmos levar por anúncios sedutores de produtos que não nos farão sentir mais felizes. A atenção plena conduzir-nos-ia a desejos materiais mais modestos e a gastar mais tempo e energia a realizar as nossas necessidades mais profundas e mais satisfatórias no que respeita ao sentido das coisas e relações.

For example, children in school are never encouraged to want the material rewards of success. Success is something to be sought for its own sake, certainly not for any wealth it might bring.

The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors—one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.

Those who own much have much to fear.

I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody.

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Greed is a bottomless bit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Then Jesus said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."

"They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the Lord's wrath…"

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.