Quotes about Possession
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
— Frank Sinatra
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
— Abraham Lincoln
Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.
— Will Rogers
You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.
— William Law
The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.
— AW Tozer
What do you possess if you possess not God?
— St. Augustine
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Whoever possesses God is happy.
— St. Augustine