Treasure Quotes - Page 17

• The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  John Locke

  Character, Religion, Principles

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• In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Civilization, People

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• The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, May, Mysterious

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.466

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Veterans Day, Travel

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

  Allen Klein

  Children, Difficult Times, Special Needs

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• The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

  John Piper

  Christian, Keys, Promise

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• The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

  John Piper

  People, Needs, Looks

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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

  John Piper

  Flow, Sin, Glory

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• The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Song, Heart

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• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  Will Wright

  Hunting, People, Bugs

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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.

  Jessamyn West

  Book, Feelings

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• A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Mind, Trouble, Egyptian

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• There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

  John Piper

  Live Life, Sacrifice, America

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

  John Piper

  Saving, Christ

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• When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Weather, Justice

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• We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

  William Law

  God, Reality, Keys

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.2

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• The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

  John Piper

  Men, Self, Differences

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Mean, Assuming

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• 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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hands, Littles, Divine

  Jonathan Edwards (1858). “The works of President Edwards in four volumes: a reprint of the Worcester edition with valuable additions and a copious general index, to which, for the first time, has been added, at great expense, a complete index of scripture texts”, p.11

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• Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

  Frank McCourt

  House, Mind, World

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Tis: A Memoir”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Accomplishment, Needs, World

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, School

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• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

  William Congreve

  Honesty, Thieves, Firsts

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 3, sc. 14

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

  John Piper

  Looks, World, Aim

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

  John Piper

  Pleasure, Obedience, Prove

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

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