Quotes about Value
When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don't really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.
- Bill Hybels
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.
- Charles Swindoll
Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
- Ted Dekker
There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.
- Ted Dekker
What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959
- Ted Dekker
What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?
- Ted Dekker
He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua
- Ted Dekker
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
- Francine Rivers
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
- Francis Chan
This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.
- Frank Viola
Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.
- Fred Craddock
Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10
- Brennan Manning