Quotes About Possession

Sometimes addiction seems more like possession, a death grip from Satan that requires supernatural intervention. Absolution from end-stage chemical obsession tends to force otherwise faithless men to their knees.)

The time that has passed is ours to keep, and nothing is safer than that which was.

Before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves, for no one can give up what he or she does not first possess.

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

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.

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

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

If we obey God, we shall be his treasured possession.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.