#possess

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#christ #death #find #form #freedom

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#characters #feel #get #mind #play

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#actually #alignment #attain #begin #beliefs

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

Experts often possess more data than judgment. ↗

— Colin Powell

#experts #judgment #more #often #possess

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

#am #everything #i #nothing #possess

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it. ↗