Consumerism Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism God Overconsumption Plenty Poverty
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous. — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine 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
