Quotes About Materialism

Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

Dicho del Profeta Objetos Es tu apego a los objetos lo que te hace ciego y sordo.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi declara que el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, but it can buy things that make you happy....

We see our need for forgiveness daily. We continually sin. We treat money as our idol. We let cell phones waste our time. We fail to protect children. We brag about material things. We undervalue life of all ages. We drive in rage. We shift our focus from God's good deposits to our shallow pleasures.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Por qué es que los que tienen tan poquito a menudo parecen tener tanto? ¿Y por qué es que los que tienen tanto parecen tener tan poquito de lo que en realidad importa?

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

Nuestra cultura nos ha condicionado para que creamos que aquellas cosas que no tenemos son las que nos harán felices… sin detenernos a pensar en que todas esas cosas hace cinco años ni siquiera existían.

Solo cuando logramos acallar al cristiano ateo que llevamos dentro y buscar a Dios y su reino por sobre las cosas huecas y vacías de este mundo, podemos experimentar la verdadera bendición perdurable.