#treasure

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable. It is the confidence that He will come through with His promises and that what He promises is more to be desired than all the world. ↗

— John Piper

#everything #freedom #joy #life #peace

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. ↗

— William Goldman

#garden #heart #hidden-treasure #love #secret

True love is something, so very true and very rare to find. So, if you ever find such a thing. Treat it as if it were some treasure. Because, once you find such a thing and set free; it will not ever return. So, treat it as if its your most precious gift.... ↗

— Jynnette L. Miller

#gift #love #loving-you #sweet #treasure

A good woman is a pleasured treasure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-female-relationships #pleasure #relationships #treasure #woman

The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor. ↗

— David Servant

#god #heaven #money #stewardship #treasure

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#buried #channels #dark #searching #treasure

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#free #guarded #imagination #inestimable #must

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined