Quotes about Value
But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
pride (superbia) is not only by itself our primal sin: it also inwardly contaminates all intrinsically good dispositions and robs every virtue of its value before God.
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.
- Dolly Parton
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
- Pope John Paul II
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
- DA Carson
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
- Wayne Dyer
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
- Francis de Sales
Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
- Franklin Graham
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
- Og Mandino
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?
- Arthur Ashe