“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.        

                                                                                                                                                                             —Dueteronomy 6:4-7

“But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

                                                                                                                                                        –Matthew 6:33

“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.”

                                                                                                                –Revelation 2:4

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

                                                                                                                                                                                              –Hebrews 12:1-3

“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.”

                                                                                                                                         –Exodus 23:19