Treasure Quotes - Page 8

I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

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.

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.

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

I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in the knowledge of God and become perfected in Christ Jesus, that we may receive a fullness and become heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus Christ.

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

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

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

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.