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Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
- Pope John Paul II
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
- Randy Alcorn
The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.
- Randy Alcorn
Every item I add to my possessions is one more thing to think about, talk about, clean, repair, display, rearrange, and replace when it goes bad.
- Randy Alcorn
Thus the Sabbath of the fourth commandment is an act of trust in the subversive, exodus-causing God of the first commandment, an act of submission to the restful God of commandments one, two, and three. Sabbath is a practical divestment so that neighborly engagement, rather than production and consumption, defines our lives.
- Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
- Walter Brueggemann
In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.
- Walter Brueggemann
We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.
- Wendell Berry
Since a flourishing society will vigorously exploit its natural resources, it will produce correspondingly great quantities of trash, and quickly its uninhabited lands will overflow with waste, threatening to make the society's own habitation into a wasteland.
- James Carse
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
- Mike Huckabee
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
- Henry Ford