Quotes about Value

it is good that you are alive: your life is good, it is good that you are who you are, and it is good that you do the work you do.

This current state of affairs may prevent otherwise thoughtful people from seeing the value of what has traditionally been regarded as the best of "common sense" about life and of what has been preserved in the wisdom traditions of most cultures—especially in two of the greatest world sources of wisdom about the human self, the Judeo-Christian and the Greek, the biblical and the classical.

Keep a right heart we must remember that the face of God shining upon us in gracious approval is the basis of our value.

God has paid an awful price to arrange for human self-determination. He obviously places great value on it. It is, after all, the only way he can get the kind of personal beings he desires for his eternal purposes. And just as we are not to try to manipulate others with impressive language of any kind (Matt. 5:37), so we are not to harass them into rightness and goodness with our condemnings and our "pearls" or holy things.

The problem comes when we mistake the vessel for the treasure, for the treasure is the life and power of Jesus Christ.

Do you think the businessman who found the pearl was sweating over its cost? An obviously ridiculous question! What about the one who found the treasure in the field—perhaps crude oil or gold? No. Of course not. The only thing these people were sweating about was whether they would "get the deal." Now that is the soul of the disciple.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

There is a use for everyone.