Quotes about Possessions

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

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?

Defining moments. Intentional strategies. Adventurous living. Most of us spend our trips around the sun accumulating the wrong things. Possessions are a dime a dozen. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

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

But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.