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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 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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• I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

  John McCain

  Memories, War, Compassion

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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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• 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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• In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Sleep, Water

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.159

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

  Ben Kingsley

  Giving, Energy, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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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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• ...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Balance, Trying

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• 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.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Journalism

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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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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• 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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• All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  New York, Humanity, Essentials

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

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Life Is, Trifles

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Understanding, Reason

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• Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

  Richard G. Scott

  Light, Practice, Receiving

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• Knowing His will is more valuable than all the treasures we could ever have, and we must always esteem knowing His will as the true treasure, and therefore make it the primary thing that we seek.

  Rick Joyner

  Knowing, Valuable, Esteem

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Dec 23, 2014

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• 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.

  David Crosby

  Responsibility, Musical, Lessons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Reading

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• I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.

  Gillian Roberts

  Thinking, Offering, House

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• A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Children, Parent, Development

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• Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

  Sivananda

  Night, Civilization, Greatest Treasure

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