materialism

To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.

Pretty Stones

The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes his tests. The one living by his actions, and by his deeds, will live his full life owning the average, happily having them, filling his needs.

There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

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

There__ a correlation between the number of digits on a man__ bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don__ realize is perfection is terrifying.

there is something beyond materialism that's called humanity and relation.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.