| MATERIALISM See also: luxury; possessions; prosperity; riches; wealth | 物質主義 |
| A man caught up with this world is not ready for the
next one. Materialism is no preparation for judgement or for heaven. Charles Haddon Spurgeon 一位被這世界抓住的人尚未預備妥當進入來生。物質主義對審判及天堂毫無準備。 |
| In the world in which we
live today it takes a miracle for a man not to be a materialist. Albert Camus 在我們今日所處的世界，想不當個物質主義者還真需要神蹟。 |
| Materialism is every bit as dangerous as modernism. Malcolm Muggeridge 物質主義與現代主義，其危險性不分軒輊。 |
| Build your nest in no tree
here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished. Samuel Rutherford 不要在這邊的樹上築你的巢...因為這個森林的主已經判定要毀壞整做森林。 |
| Death is final mockery of materialism. We
brought nothing into this world and it certain we can carry nothing out. If a man
has lived to accumulate good, how indescribably tragic his dying! Herbert M. Carson 死亡是對物質主義的最後嘲弄。我們空手而來也要空手而回。如果一個人活著就是為積攢財富，他的死是何等難以言喻的悲劇。 |
| May God pity a nation whose
factory chimneys rise higher than her church steeples. John Kelman 願上帝憐憫那些工廠的煙囪比教堂尖塔高的國家。 |
| There is not a vice which more effectually contrasts
and deadens the feelings, which more completely makes a man's affections centre in himself
and excludes all others from partaking in them, than the desire of accumulating
possessions. Thomas Merton 再沒有比積攢財物慾望的惡行能更有效的與感情大相逕庭甚至能扼殺感情，這慾望讓人的熱情只集中在自己而拒絕與他人分享。 |
| No oriental monarch ever
rules his cowering subjects with any more cruel tyranny than things, visible things,
audible things, tangible things, rule mankind. A. W. Tozer 沒有一位東方君王會像財物轄制人類一樣殘暴的轄制他畏縮的臣民，這些財物包括看得見、聽得到、觸摸得到的種種財物。 |