Quotes about Possessions

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.

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

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

If you own a rug you own too much.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.

You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.