Quotes about Value

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?

My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about him or myself or my neighbors.

Treating souls for whom Christ died as numbers or projects or resources seemed to me something like a sin against the Holy Spirit.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship. —Thomas Aquinas

if it matters to you, it matters to Him.

Gifts are free; maturity is expensive.

It's difficult to get the same fruit as the early Church when we value a book they didn't have more than the Holy Spirit they did have. To value the Scriptures above the Holy Spirit is idolatry. It's not "Father, Son, and Holy Bible." The Bible reveals God, but is itself not God.

Instead, I hope to raise the value we place on the call of God, in whatever way that call manifests in someone's life. The dentist, the lawyer, the housewife, the mechanic and all the rest are called by God to do what they do to more fully express who He is in a functioning and healthy society.