Quotes about Intrinsic

The truth, not just for me but for you, is that our value is based not on what we do but on who made us (Ps. 139:13—16).

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

Your value doesn't come from the clothes you wear, a number on a scale, your career, or your success with a health plan on any given day. You are of immense value because God made you.

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

God never had to reach into the ground again, because the power to transform was intrinsically placed into man. All types of potential were locked into our spirits before birth. For the Christian, transformation at its optimum is the outworking of the internal. God placed certain things in us that must come out. We house the prophetic power of God. Every word of our personal prophetic destiny is inside us. He has ordained us to be.

Artists sometimes talk about art for art's sake. What they mean is that art has intrinsic worth: it has value in and of itself, apart from any utility. This needs to be said because there are always some people who wonder why we need art, on the assumption that in order to be a legitimate calling it must perform some practical function. But since God has made us to enjoy beauty, art itself is able to nourish our souls.

It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

The greatness of work is inside man.