Why should material needs be considered more important than spiritual ones?

What a stupid assumption to make and certainly not based on the real world, let alone the "spiritual" ones.

And the only goals with even a prayer of being realized are spiritual ones.

The results is that marabouts are expected to provide certain material benefits to their follower in addition to the spiritual ones.

Thus Jesus urges his followers to break their merely natural relationships in favor of spiritual ones.

The concrete lessons are easy, compared with the moral and spiritual ones.

There were other reasons, too, more spiritual ones.

Yet some had gone into limbo leaving not only physical artifacts but spiritual ones as well.

Maybe he did, my friend- 12 not direct descendants, but spiritual ones.

Zodhiates discovered that by meeting the physical needs of people, he often opened the door to meet the spiritual ones as well.