God made man to be somebody, not just to have things.<\/p>\n
Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n
It is our nature\u2019s law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in longing for the things that are not his.<\/p>\n
Bernard of Clairvaux<\/i><\/p>\n
The riches and goods of Christians are not common, as touching the right, title, and possession of the same, as certain Anabaptists do falsely boast.<\/p>\n
Book of Common Prayer<\/i><\/p>\n
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.<\/p>\n
Peter Damian<\/i><\/p>\n
All my possessions are for a moment of time.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth I, Queen of England<\/i><\/p>\n
Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.<\/p>\n
Joseph Hall<\/i><\/p>\n
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them.<\/p>\n
Walter Hilton<\/i><\/p>\n
The desire for possessions is dangerous and terrible, knowing no satiety; it drives the soul which it controls to the heights of evil.<\/p>\n
Abba Isidore of Pelusia<\/i><\/p>\n
The true ascetic counts nothing his own but his harp.<\/p>\n
Joachim of Fiore<\/i><\/p>\n
These are things that make it difficult to die.<\/p>\n
Samuel Johnson, being shown round a castle and its grounds<\/i><\/p>\n
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.<\/p>\n
David Livingstone<\/i><\/p>\n
At least I left shoes in my closets and not skeletons. And besides, I didn\u2019t have 3,000 pairs of shoes. I only had 1,060.<\/p>\n
Imelda Marcos<\/i><\/p>\n
If you have anything that you prize very highly, hold it very loosely, for you may easily lose it.<\/p>\n
C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n
We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa<\/i><\/p>\n
The blessed ones who possess the kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing.<\/p>\n
A.W. Tozer<\/i><\/p>\n
There can be no doubt that possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the Christian life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.<\/p>\n
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