Pastoral Resources

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.