The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.
You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.
Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.
Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.
My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.