Quotes about Possession

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond. No dream had ever been like this. She was no longer solitary. She was one of a vast sisterhood - all the women who had ever loved in the world.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

What is it to be rich toward God? To understand this, imagine for a moment everything you call yours in the world as taken from you. Picture yourself abandoned and forgotten of all, in utter isolation alone with your own heart. And then ask yourself: What have I now? What do I now possess?

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!" —John Bunyan