Earthly Possessions Quotes

• Las posesiones terrenales deslumbran nuestros ojos y nos engañan haciéndonos creer que pueden proporcionarnos seguridad y liberarnos de la ansiedad. Sin embargo, todo el tiempo son la fuente misma de la ansiedad.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Eye, Thinking, Security And Freedom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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• Cuanto más tienes, más ocupado estás, menos das.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Penance, Spirituality

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• 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.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Goal, Worry, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 09, 2016

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• No podéis servir a Dios y a las riquezas.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Biblia, Bíblica, Jesucristo

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• 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.

  Charles Stanley

  Commitment, Reflection, Giving

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• Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Fighting, Possession

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• 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.

  Abraham J. Twerski

  Men, Desire, Purpose

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• 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.

  Juan de la Cruz

  Peace, Twilight, Ubuntu

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

  George D. Prentice

  Self, Possession

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• 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.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Political, Growth

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• Soy un pobre mendigo. Mis posesiones terrenales consisten en seis ruecas, los platos de la cárcel, una lata de leche de cabra, seis taparrabos y toallas hechos en casa y mi reputación, que no puede valer mucho.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Goats, Towels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Responsibility, Son

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• 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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Taken, Legacy

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• [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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Rights, Rocks, Caves

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