Top 1200 Earthly Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.
I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.
Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.
I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.
Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.
Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.
There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
In cyberspace, weapons systems get created in 24-hour cycles. You have no earthly idea whether or not you have a defensive capability against them.
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.
Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.
