Top 689 Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.
All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.
The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.
Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
