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  • One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

  • Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press
  • Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

  • In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

    Peace   Twilight   Ubuntu  
  • A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.

  • Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  • Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

  • All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

    Children   Taken   Legacy  
  • I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

    Atheism   Goats   Towels  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black
  • [Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

    Rights   Rocks   Caves  
  • The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

  • The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

    Men   Political   Growth  
  • Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth.

    Goal   Worry   Soul  
    FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 09, 2016
  • Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

    Men   Desire   Purpose  
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