Best 320 quotes in «possession quotes» category

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

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

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

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

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

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

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

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.

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

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

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

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

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

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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

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.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

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

Germany must have her place in the sun.

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.

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.

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

How many things I can do without!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

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.

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

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.

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.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

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

...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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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