Quotes About Possessions

In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs" (Matt. 5:3). But who are the poor? The poor are those who have nothing to defend, who are detached from those things that they seem to possess, so that their lives are not dedicated to affirming their own possession.

I never desired so much land unless we could have lived upon it.

It all goes back to the spiritual malnutrition we talked about in the introduction. Specifically, it's about trying to use food to fill not only the physical void of our stomachs but also the spiritual void of our souls. Here's the problem with that: Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls. Possessions can fill our houses but never our hearts. Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love. Children can fill our days but never our identities.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."8

It's a sad culture. People live in a frenzy. They work all the time to make money to buy things to impress other people. They're measured by what they own.

Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Be contented with what you already have. At the same time, strive for greater things. All your possessions are gifts from god. You must be thankful for all of them by maximizing their use.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Be thankful and cherish everything that you have you never know how long you'll have them.

You will leave this world with exactly what you came with. Nothing. Enjoy memories. Not materials.

I do not like being ignored when someone has my things!

Money is the closest to everything, but also what distances us from many things.

We tend to care about the things more which we don't have and care less about the things we already have. This leads to dissatisfaction with present state of life.

All that money can buy you is a certain amount of time or leisure with which to do the things you want to do.

my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...

Often all the possessions we have, the work we do, the beliefs we hold, are manic attempts to fill this opening, but they never stay in place. They always slip, and we are left more vulnerable and exposed than before. A time comes when you know that you can no longer wallpaper this void. Until you really listen to the call of this void, you will remain an inner fugitive, driven from refuge to refuge, always on the run with no place to call home.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not. -Uncle John

Funny thing. I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need.

I want to have some stuff that I keep for myself, my friends, my family, my loved ones. That's how I view.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.