Quotes About Precious

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!

The most precious truth in the Bible is that God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him—in Him!

But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.

The lovers of God's Word praise the preciousness of the Bible and the pleasures it brings. They

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

Though all three are prophesied to occur, of these three, only one is stated in scripture as the reason for the destruction of the Daughter of Babylon. The common link between the second and third listed future occurrences, is a precious liquid, i.e., human blood, the shedding of innocent human blood.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Weak faith is true faith – as precious, though not so great as strong faith: the same Holy Ghost the author, the same Gospel the instrument… For it is not the strength of our faith that saves, but the truth of our faith - not the weakness of our faith that condemns, but the want – of faith.

That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.

Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most precious.

The north wind roaring down in October is cruel and cold and reminds you again — as the sea has a way of doing — that nature does not care for man. And somehow that makes the red and yellow leaves and the blue, deceptive noons all the sweeter and more precious because living is so dangerous and so short and can be so bitter.

This life's a long old road We shouldn't have to walk alone But if you find the right companion You won't feel so worn out when you've grown All life is precious And every day's a prize And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky

Treat each day as a treasure.

The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.

There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so they were precious, it was that feeling, and the sense of the miracle of this shared moment, here and now. Why were we so far apart, even when we are together? It was anice loneliness, like th sensation of washing your face with cold water.

Penso che non potrò dimenticare la bellezza del suo pianto. Ti faceva sentire che l'anima racchiude qualcosa di prezioso.

Rifletteva il cielo azzurro di quella preziosa schiarita della stagione delle piogge.

It was true that she jumped to conclusions and that her life was a mess - even her earlier stint as a salesman had been a failure. I was aware of all that, but the beauty of her tears was something I would not soon forget. She made me realise that the human heart is something very precious.

The notion haunts me that I am being given one last chance to redeem something of myself. I am not speaking of the soul, I am not that far gone in my dotage. But there may be some small, precious thing that I can buy back, as once I bought back Mama Vander's silver pill-box from the pawnbroker's.

There are other doctors out there but there's only one [of your child].

But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now." " The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either.