Browsing Quotes With Tag: materialism (42)
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever,” when really the fever has us.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The main purpose of the Doctrine and Covenants, you will find, is to implement the law of consecration. This law, the consummation of the laws of obedience and sacrifice, is the threshold of the celestial kingdom, the last and hardest requirement of men in this life.
Speaker: Hugh NibleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord wants us to be made over – but in His image, not in the image of the world, by receiving His image in our countenances.
Speaker: Susan W. TannerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The choice between good and evil is at the very heart of our experience on earth. In the final review of our lives, it will not really matter if we were rich or poor, if we were athletic or not, if we had friends or were often forgotten.
We can work, study, laugh and have fun, dance, singe and enjoy many different experiences. These are a wonderful part of life, but they are not central to why we are here. The opportunity to choose good over evil is precisely why we are here.Speaker: Neil L. AndersenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must end our fixation on wealth.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Have you noticed how Satan works to capture the mind and emotions with flashing images, blaring music, and the stimulation of every physical sense to excel? He diligently strives to fill life with action, entertainment, and the stimulation so that one cannot ponder the consequences of his tempting invitations.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not from what you have.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intellectual pride is more basic and serious than either social or material pride. We know we can lose our prestige or our possessions. They are external. But when the problem lies in our very thinking and we are unaware of that fact, what then?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Speaker: Logan Pearsall SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“So I rule all this wealth with no great joy.
…The grief that numbs the spirit gluts us quickly.” MenelausSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What was there to laugh at? Not much, really, unless you were the kind of person who was on a permanent lookout for something to laugh at. Unfortunately, that was exactly the kind of person most kids were, in his experience. They patrolled up and down school corridors like sharks, except that what they were on the lookout for wasn’t flesh but the wrong trousers, or the wrong haircut, or the wrong sneakers, any or all of which sent them wild with excitement.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that’s what you want? I’d be lost if JJ and people like that got their way, and there was nothing unpersonal in the world. I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers – small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafes. I’m happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are. My mum and dad are always going on about how soulless those places are, and I’m like, Der. That’s the point.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Like most of the other things which humans are excited about, such as health and sickness, age and youth, or war and peace, it [love] is, from the point of view of the spiritual life, mainly raw material.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy’s own ground… by the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can forsee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences. Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it “real life,” and don’t let him ask what he means by “real.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The two little girls and I crossed the Delaware River where George Washington had crossed it, the next morning. We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors.
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!