Quotes About Earthly Possessions

#1. 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

#2. I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.

Michelle Marcos

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

Peter Damian

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

George D. Prentice

#5. 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

#6. Life is undoubtedly the most valuable and the most precious of all our earthly possessions.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. 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

#9. In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.

San Juan De La Cruz

#10. 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

#11. Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.

Debasish Mridha

#12. 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

#13. A quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

Martin Luther

#14. I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

Lisa Marie Perry

#15. The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

David Farragut

#16. Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

Wes Fesler

#17. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Joseph Cook

#18. I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Robyn

#19. At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Joshua Greenberg