That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.
I believe in ghosts and spirits, and I believe that they can possess you.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
What we don't understand we don't possess.
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.
To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.
What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be getting on with bringing them up and setting them a good example. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.