Quotes About Materialism

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.