Character Quote by Herman Bavinck

“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not falling into…

— Herman Bavinck

“Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now…

— Aldous Huxley

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of…

— John Piper

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ…

— Randy Alcorn

But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful…

— David Bentley Hart

“In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.”

— Emma Forrest

“The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements. On the…

— Luc Ferry