Quotes about Possess
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
— Albert Schweitzer
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
— Deuteronomy 25:19
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
— Deuteronomy 4:5
And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
— Genesis 28:4
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
— Isaiah 14:2
Enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your fathers. Deuteronomy 6:18
— Beth Moore
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
— St. John Chrysostom
then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
— Deuteronomy 19:2
Adam Smith had already seen, on the generation of needs and desires that will leave us endlessly "rest-less," inadequate, unfulfilled, and in pursuit of that which may satiate desire. Those requirements concern endless predation so that we are a society of 24/7 multitasking in order to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess.
— Walter Brueggemann
For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
— Psalm 69:35
Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The question of "canon and creed," which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be addressed from the point of view of those of us who are actually working with the biblical canon itself rather than using the word "canon" as shorthand for the systematic theology they already possess.
— NT Wright