Consumerism Quote by Alan Hirsch Download Open image “There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.” — Alan Hirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Force Powerful Religious West
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors -… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism. This” — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows is to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they… — Sinclair Dumontais Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
