Quotes about Possessions

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.

They had 736 horses, 245 mules,