Worldly Goods Quotes

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!