Quotes about Worth

According to Earnie Larsen and others, the two deepest desires most people have are: to love and be loved, and to believe they are worthwhile and know someone else believes that also.1

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

Let Him tell you you're worth wanting, loving, even liking, pursuing, fighting for, and, yes, beloved, keeping.

There's something I want to clarify here before we get any further: making it matter doesn't mean making it worth it. Embracing the distinction can be no small relief.

God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

God sees us—someone worth dying for. God loves us, but we too often see ourselves as unloved. God sees us as chosen and accepted, but we may see ourselves as rejected. God sees us from the perspective of who He created us to be, but we too often see ourselves from our limitations instead of our possibilities.

some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible.

There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.