Treasure Quotations | Page 4

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

I can remember the kids in grade school and talking about this great big store that was coming. It sounded like Treasure Island. All the kids were excited because we'd never seen anything like that in Sioux Falls.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

He bestowed the Blessing of His treasure of truth; only He Himself knows.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

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Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

Treasure, that is what you are

I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Turn your troubles into treasures. Learn from them and grow from them.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

We treasure what we can measure.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

You cannot lose your real treasure.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

This holiday was typical of how they had gone astray. It was a season of fantastic embellishment, with lots of sequins and embroidery. Every place looked like a treasure chest and Gap had none of it.

The damage here in Treasure Key and most of the Bahamas is minimal, ... major beach erosion.

He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

The Guru, the True Guru, is the treasure of the Lord s Name, how very fortunate are the Sikhs who share in this treasure of virtue.

The imperial family is the only treasure of the Japanese people.

And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

All of those things are at risk now, so we're trying to preserve a natural treasure really for this area.

All the prayers and all of the support that I've gotten...All the cards, all the little memories, the stories shared...I'll treasure them for the rest of my life.

And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.