Quotes About Materialism

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.