Heavenly Treasures Quotes

#1. Everyone loves a villain. Or maybe not a villain, exactly, but someone you can point out and say, I might be weird, but I'm not weird like her.

Laura Ruby

#2. Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

David Steindl-Rast

#3. I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#4. And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

David James Duncan

#5. It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Randy Alcorn

#6. There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Sue Grafton

#7. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

Roger Bannister

#8. Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

Matshona Dhliwayo