Pastoral Resources

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!