Top 1200 Earthly Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.
Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.
Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
In all of my possessions, in all moments, whether hard or happy, I was accompanied by my dear wife, Lilly, who supported me wholeheartedly.
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
