Quotes about Value
We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.
- Brennan Manning
The recovery of passion starts with reappraising the value of the treasure, continues with letting the Great Rabbi hold us against His heart, and comes to fruition in a personal transformation of which we will not even be aware.
- Brennan Manning
Words, like anything else used too often, soon depreciate in value, lose their edge, and cease to bite into our lives. When phrases, such as unconditional love, trip too easily off the tongue, the speaker's ego may experience a temporary rush of exhilaration using an in salvation slogan, but his heart remains unchanged.
- Brennan Manning
God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
- Brennan Manning
Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.
- Brennan Manning
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
- Henri Nouwen
It is in this solitude that we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts.
- Henri Nouwen
when God created man and woman in his own image, he saw that "it was very good," and, despite the dark voices, no man or woman can ever change that.
- Henri Nouwen
The eyes of love had seen you as precious, as of infinite beauty, as of eternal value. When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.
- Henri Nouwen
To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice.
- Henri Nouwen
Then occupation is called a blessing and emptiness a curse. Many telephone conversations start with the words: "I know you are busy, but …" and we would confuse the speaker and even harm our reputation were we to say, "Oh no, I am completely free, today, tomorrow and the whole week." Our client might well lose interest in a man who has so little to do.
- Henri Nouwen
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau