Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?
. . . possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
