Quotes about Value

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counter-culture of ordinary pilgrims who insist on living a different way. We can make the world stop and think before pulling a trigger, or exacting revenge, or neglecting the vulnerable, or practising euthanasia on those it deems 'devoid of value'.

suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.