I knew I wanted to be used by God in big ways. I always prayed He would trust me enough to use me to make a difference in His Kingdom, but I never dreamed it would be through a cable television show, the number one cable television show in A&E network history, as of this writing! Ephesians 3:20–21 best describes how I feel. It is not because of any power or wisdom we possess that this happened. It is all because of His power, His power working through us. What a dream come true!
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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.
Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.
The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.
Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.