Top 20 Pearl Of Great Price Quotes
#1. Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.
Charles Portis
#3. What if the purpose of my life is not about me? Am I willing to give up all my dreams, my aspirations and comfort to find it/ Are you willing to pay the cost? This is the pearl of great price, the abundant life we are all seeking and, at the same time, petrified to find.
Jeff Goins
#4. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.
Brennan Manning
#5. Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Francois Fenelon
#8. Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#9. Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
#10. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
John Balguy
#11. I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
Jim Webb
#12. There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Martin Scorsese
#13. The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
Stephen Covey
#14. It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the person shooting sound, whatever. But you can legitimately have a couple people and go and do a documentary.
Jeremy Coon
#15. There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.
(on Tom Wolfe)
Norman Mailer
#16. A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.
Joan Aiken
#17. All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.
Marilyn Ferguson
#19. Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Henry Ward Beecher
#20. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
