Amount Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience -…

— Nancy Pearcey

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Just one miracle in the life of any person totally disproves the entire premises of the fundamentals of materialistic science. And people like myself,…

— Calvin W. Allison

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in…

— C. S. Lewis

“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man…

— G.K. Chesterton

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of materialist science…

— Joseph Dietzgen

“The materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all intelligent ideas are…

— G.K. Chesterton

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by…

— Rupert Sheldrake

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of…

— Mortimer Adler

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism,…

— Anonymous

The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an…

— Pope John Paul II