{"id":433,"date":"2025-12-03T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/drbobnichols\/?p=432"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:57:55","slug":"choose-quality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2025\/12\/03\/choose-quality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>M<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">uch is not always good; go for quality.\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: \u00a0Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. \u00a0Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: \u00a0Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Matthew 13:45-48<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have heard the expression, &#8220;choose quality over quantity.&#8221; It isn&#8217;t always better to have a big quantity of cheap stuff over one quality item that will serve you longer.  God wants us to have a quality life. So we have to learn to choose the best thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you\u00a0<strong>life<\/strong>\u00a0and death, the blessing and the curse. So\u00a0<strong>choose<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>life<\/strong>\u00a0in order that you may live, you and your descendants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomy%2030%3A19&amp;version=NASB\"><strong>Deuteronomy 30:19<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b>Victory Decision<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">I choose to go for quality, not quantity, in my life. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMuch is not always good; go for quality.\u201d Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: \u00a0Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. \u00a0Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2025\/12\/03\/choose-quality-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choose Quality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-one-liners","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AdobeStock_538517419-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1787&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lc9u-6Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/12\/27\/the-prodigal-son\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":0},"title":"The Prodigal Son","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"December 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cGod always brings us back to where we should be.\u201d 11And he said, A certain man had two sons:\u00a012And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. 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