Best 320 quotes in «possession quotes» category

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Germany must have her place in the sun.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

How many things I can do without!

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

I find all this money a considerable burden.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.