Quotes about Possessions

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most precious.

Current idols are more subtle than ancient ones because today's false gods are often outside the field of religion. People, possessions, status, and self-aggrandizement are some of the most popular deities today. Beware of bowing down before these things. False gods never satisfy; instead, they stir up lust for more and more.

In fact, Luther says the "great idol Mammon" has anointed "three trustees—rust, moths, and thieves"—that ought to remind us of the temporality of possessions.12

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.