Quotes about Possession

The soul seeks to retain its authority and move independently, while the spirit strives to possess and master everything for the maintenance of God's authority.

The glory which God had in the beginning, even the unapproachable glory of God, was also the Son's glory. The Father and the Son exist equally and are equal in power and possession.

This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Just stop and ask yourself the question, "Now what is it that I possess? I possess Jesus as my intimate Friend, who lives on the inside of me and who promised that no matter what goes on in my life, He will never leave me". You can't beat that for a promise or for friendship. That is an awesome possession which no one else can give you and no one else can promise you that.

Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.