Quotes about Preciousness
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they end up knowing more and more about less and less. It's a malaise that has now infected A-levels and GCSEs.
— David Starkey
He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.
— JM Coetzee
The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.
— Watchman Nee
That is the great joy of being chosen: the discovery that others are chosen as well. In the house of God there are many mansions. There is a place for everyone — a unique, special place. Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognise the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.
— Henri Nouwen
Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?
— Marcus Aurelius
The goal of our mission is that people from all the nations worship the true God. But worship means cherishing the preciousness of God above all else, including life itself.
— John Piper
The lovers of God's Word praise the preciousness of the Bible and the pleasures it brings. They
— John Piper
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.
— John Piper
The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
— Yolanda Adams
She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness of her body made it most sumptuous.Sidney.3. To
— Samuel Johnson
The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.
— Zig Ziglar