Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have. . . loyalty and friendship.
we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.
I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.
Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible.
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
the possession of power brings on madness.
Enthusiasm is a divine possession.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.