#posse

The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we’ll gladly let everything else go to possess Him. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#gospel #jesus #kingdom #life #possessions

Real value come from nature and human resources, both of which we already possess. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#possessions #value-of-life #life

A heart anchored in money will only drift away. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#drift #money #possessions #money

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. ↗

— Charles Hart

#night #possession #music

Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#gabriel #lj-smith #the-possessed #vision

Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#desire #knight #passion #possessive #romance

I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#horror-romance #owning #possession #relationship #sex

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#pity #possess #religion #religion

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#entirety #guilty #his #knowing #library

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ↗