He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

When everything gets too much, give some away

I don’t like Paradise,As they probably don’t have obsessions there.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe’re riding to Utopia; road map says we’ll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it’s a...

I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a handful of ewes and two low yield cows. But we live, I say....

In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary fix for deeper and more profound yearnings.This has given rise to...

Being king is about having all the material things you want, and having nobody you trust enough to share them with.

We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

from The AuctionI left my home with unencumbered willAnd all the rubbish of confusion sold.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the “perfect law”...

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

There is absolutely a big difference between getting a date and getting a husband. Being overly materialistic can get a lady some dates, but an impeccable character will surely get her a husband of a...

A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply never be worthy of any trust or respect.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to...

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact,...

But in the wake of ‘Bullet,’ all the guys wanted to know was, ‘How’s it doing? How’s it selling?’ How to tell them I didn’t give a flying fuck how it was doing in the...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There’s just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

The most animated talks we have are about…things

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view...

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

If only we had something more…

Things that look like they were designed, probably were… If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically excludes its existence will be susceptible to being trapped in an endless chase...

An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in thesingle-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into thisworld, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while theenvironment in which it...

I will say that the cross of materialism is that it never quite succeeds in believing what it preaches, in thinking its own thought. This may sound complicated, but is in fact simple: the materialist...

He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have–everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

Don’t obsess over having the ‘latest’ version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the...

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang,” said Hollus. “And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher...

[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal...

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it,...

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.

We have enough money. You don’t want to be Uncle Daddy.

Girls like well-built boys. Women love well-paid men.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or...