Quotes about Possession
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
— Albert Camus
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
— Eusebius of Caesarea
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
— Thomas Merton
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
— Leo Buscaglia
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
— William Hazlitt
Often a spirit seizes him … and it throws him into convulsions… . I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. Luke 9:39—40
— Beth Moore
Save Your people, bless Your possession, shepherd them, and carry them forever. Psalm 28:9
— Beth Moore
God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle.
— Beth Moore
When the vivid reality which is meant by these rather abstract words is truly possessed by us, when that which is unchanging in ourselves is given its chance, and emerges from the stream of succession to recognise its true home and goal, which is God—then, though much suffering may, indeed will, remain; apprehension, confusion, instability, despair, will cease.
— Evelyn Underhill
We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
— Billy Graham