POSSESSIONS See also:Luxury; Materialism; Money; Prosperity; Riches; Wealth | 財富 |
Worldly possessions have ruined
many people but redeemed none. 屬世財富使許多人敗壞,卻未使任何人得救。 |
If we have God
in all things while they are ours, we shall have all things in God when they are taken
away. 如果我們在所擁有的財物中有上帝,那我們就應該在失去一切時,在上帝之中得著一切。 |
You actually possess everything
you can see when you close your eyes. 當你閉上雙眼時,你的確擁有你所看到的一切。 |
It is easier to
renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them. Walter Hilton 拒絕屬世財富比拒絕愛慕它們容易。 |
All the possessions of mortals
are mortal. Metrodorus 一切必死的人所擁有的財富都是必朽的。 |
Nothong
influences a man so much as that which he calls his own. C. H. Spurgeon 再沒有比人宣稱是屬於自己的東西更能影響人。 |
Man's best possession is a
sympathetic wife. Euripides (485 BC - 406 BC), Antigone 一個人最佳的財富就是心懷憐憫的妻子。 |
Treasure your
relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book 珍視你的人際關係而不是你的財富。 |
Why grab possessions like
thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney 當你能夠像智者一樣輕忽財富時,為什麼要像盜賊一樣緊抓財富,或像社會主義者一樣分配財富呢? |
I believe that
every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a
duty. John D. Rockefeller Jr. 我相信每個權利都蘊含責任;每個機會都帶著義務;每次得著的都帶著任務。 |
Riches do not delight us so much
with their possession, as torment us with their loss. Dick Gregory 財富並不能以其所有的取悅我們,而當失去時卻能折磨我們。 |
Of all the
possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the
great name still lives. Johann Von Schiller 今生一切擁有,最重要的是名譽;當肉體歸回塵土時,美名仍然存留。 |