Quotes about Value

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

How can you measure the value of the good news of Christ? It is spoken of in the Bible as light in the darkness, freedom from slavery and life from death. Look at how much the Early Church valued the message. They received it with great joy and overflowing gratitude.

A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.