Quotes about Value

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.

But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.

Accordingly, we shall find   angels and men to be dry, heaven to be empty, the earth to be   unproductive, and, in short, all things to be of no value, if we wish   to be partakers of the gifts of God in any other way than through   Christ.

First, we must understand that as long as Christ remains outside of us, and we are separated from him, all that he has suffered and done for the salvation of the human race remains useless and of no value for us. Therefore, to share with us what he has received from the Father, he had to become ours and to dwell within us.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.