“We are going to have bodies like Jesus did after He was resurrected. Each of us is going to have a new eternal, glorified body. It will actually be constructed as we are now, of flesh and bones - but eternal flesh and bones, incorruptible, immortal flesh and bones. It's going to be material, natural, recognizable, seeable and feelable.” BodyJesusNaturalMaterialsEternalBonesFleshHeavenlyImmortal Author:David Berg
“Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!” GivingBelieveHeavenPoorMaterialsCivilizationEternalGive MeBreadLuxuryBlissMaterialism Author:Bill Vaughan
“Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.” PrinciplesFiguresChangedMaterialsElementsEternalFortuneSubstanceAdsCompositionExesFashionableAlteredComplexion Author:Giordano Bruno
“When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.” StillsEnoughTodayReligionUniverseCausesCan DoMaterialsDemandEternalArgumentChainsExplanationPointingSkepticPlausibleLikelihoodInfidelCausality Author:Taner Edis
“People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMaterialsFineEternalPossessionMaterial ThingsSuperlativesCheapness Author:Mabel Seeley
“I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.” SaidBodyFoundChristianityBloodMaterialsEternalWineCoreBreadProphetRighteousness Author:Sarah Miles
“A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?” WorldEndsSeemsPurposeAnswersMoralAtheismStrangeMaterialsEternalPositive AtheismRevengePunishmentAbsurdTortureWarningResurrection Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.” WorldYearsKindImportantRealChristianSpiritualSpiritCausesMaterialsPromiseSceneEternalSeasonsNoiseCelebrateFaithfulHolidayContemplatingArrivalsChristian FaithDvdsIpodsChristmas DayBusiness WorldSillinessChristmas SeasonNativity Author:L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
“The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.” WorldStillsEnergyStuffForeverThis WorldMaterialsSourceQuietEternalOppositesIndependentSilentAcknowledgeStillnessQuantumSoupExquisiteFluidResilientCoexistenceMaterial WorldDynamism Author:Deepak Chopra
“Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything.” HelpingSoundNaturalWealthSleepMaterialsComfortEternalMedicineHearingSupremeBlissElectricPillowOrnamentsSound Sleep Author:Sivananda
“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.” WorldBodyLawSpiritOrderDivineMaterialsEternalReal LifeAgentsMeritAcquireObservingMaterial WorldDivine PowerEternal Happiness Author:Allan Kardec
“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!” PerfectKnowingMaterialsTomorrowEternalDiscoveryPerfectionDebateYesterdayPerfectionistHomageProceeding Author:Oliver $
“For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.” MaySpiritualDesirePurposeAwarenessMaterialsEternalBuiltTemporary Author:Edgar Cayce