Quotes about Value

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?

My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about him or myself or my neighbors.

Treating souls for whom Christ died as numbers or projects or resources seemed to me something like a sin against the Holy Spirit.