The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and I am sure that food is much more generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt Whitman would say,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also… — Susan Trott Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not… — Owen J. Flanagan Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Real success is found in radical sacrifice. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Even if materialism brought happiness in this life (which it certainly does not), it would leave us woefully unprepared for the next.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Enslavement to God signifies liberation from all other forms of servitude, and although modern man may think that he is liberated, he… — Donald W. Flood Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
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