Quotes About Possession

We have invented the distinction between justice and charity. It is easy to understand why. Our notion of justice dispenses him who possesses from the obligation of giving. If he gives all the same, he thinks he has a right to be pleased with himself.

For if we seek salvation, the very name ofJesus teaches us that he possesses it.

I wont let him have you.

If it's in the bin, it's public property.

I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put the books in boxes. No one ever read them. anyway.)

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour.

Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess.

He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed

If I want it, it is mine. If I give it to you and change my mind later, it is mine. If I can take it away from you, it is mine. If we are building something together, all of the pieces are mine. If it looks just like mine, it is mine. If it is mine, it will never belong to anybody else, no matter what. If it is yours, it is mine.

When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.

information is simultaneously a relationship, an action, and an area of shared mind. What it isn't is a noun. Information is not a thing. It isn't an object. It isn't something that, when you sell it or have it stolen, ceases to remain in your possession. It doesn't have a market value that can be objectively determined.

A book worth reading is worth owning.

You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it is? . . . Love and hate. Greed. Revenge. Pride. Those things...

When the "sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.

As Radley Balko, senior editor of Reason magazine, details in his insightful study of the problem, these characteristics include: The militarization of domestic policing, not just in big cities but in small towns and suburbs. The increasingly frequent use of heavily armed SWAT teams for proactive policing and the routine execution of drug warrants, even for simple marijuana possession.