Our Possessions Quotes

52 Our Possessions quotes by 45 unique authors

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love,… — Frederick Lenz
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a… — David Wilkerson
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them. — Dan Davis
We are made loveless by our possessions. — Elizabeth of Hungary
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with… — Paul L Wachtel
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,… — Samuel Johnson
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… — Thomas Huxley
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of… — Joyce Meyer
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… — Peace Pilgrim
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that… — Paulo Coelho
This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't… — Deb Caletti
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. — Ian Mcewan
The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something… — Donald Miller
We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that… — Donald Miller
I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties,… — Jeffrey R. Holland
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of… — Lloyd Jones
Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of… — Donald Miller
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will… — Mark Twain
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment… — John Woolman
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. — John Randolph

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