Quotes about Value
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
— Washington Irving
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
— GK Chesterton
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
— James Howell
Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.
— John Maxwell
When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don't really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.
— Bill Hybels
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.
— Charles Swindoll
Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
— Ted Dekker
There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.
— Ted Dekker
What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959
— Ted Dekker
What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?
— Ted Dekker
He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua
— Ted Dekker
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
— Francine Rivers