Sentences with phrase «materialistic society values»

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«We live in one of the most affluent cultures in history where many of the values of an increasingly materialistic society stand in direct conflict with the gospel vision,» they charged.

We have allowed the values of our affluent, materialistic society to shape our thinking and acting toward the poor.

I realized that somehow, surrounded by all this materialistic abundance and going with the flow of society, we were raising our kids in a manner that didn't agree with our core values and who we truly are.

The book's most important asset is the author's genuine concern with the values that ought to help structure the role and the function of universities in a society where the influence of private markets and their associated materialistic values is ever more pervasive.

In their lifetimes, the attraction of these saints was their rejection of the material values of their own societies, and our world, which is yet more materialistic and «corrupt», seems to find them equally compelling.