Conception Quote by Jacques Ellul

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption…

— E. F. Schumacher

“The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever…

— David Bentley Hart

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our…

— David Suzuki

“Whether we understand work spiritually depends in large part on whether we understand the economy spiritually. If we view the economy materialistically, thinking that…

— Greg Forster

“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The basis of spiritual renewal is not the guilt feelings that frequently arise in sensitized individuals in rich industrial societies. Instead, it is a…

— Dorothee Soelle

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

“Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.”

— Gary Hopkins

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“From being the object of a religious experience and sanctified, poverty became the object of a moral conception that condemned”

— Michel Foucault

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver