Francis Schaeffer Quotes

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

I already own more than any human being needs.

Affluence = abundant flow.

False values begin with the worship of things.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Money is the answer for everything.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.