Quotes about Possession

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

No one who is not a Christian in spirit can perform the Christian act; and the Sermon on the Mount is not a code of rules to be mechanically followed; it is the description of the life which any man will spontaneously lead when once the Spirit of Christ has taken complete possession of his heart.

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

The fingers of the attacker feel what will soon belong to his whole body.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.