Quotes on Prized Possessions

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.