Worldly Possessions Quotes

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.