Treasure Quotes - Page 9

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

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

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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.

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.

When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

Treasure your exceptions.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.