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Humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God's eyes and that all we are is pure gift.
— Henri Nouwen
The eyes of love had seen you as precious, as of infinite beauty, as of eternal value. When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.
— Henri Nouwen
By slowly converting our loneliness into a deep solitude, we create that precious space where we can discover the voice telling us about our inner necessity—that is, our vocation.
— Henri Nouwen
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
— Henri Nouwen
Life is so fragile; you have to treasure it.
— Fabio Lanzoni
If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
— Richard Baxter
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
— John Piper
All human life is precious.
— George W. Bush
At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.
— Frederick Buechner
To value only what can be sold is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen