Quotes about Worth

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

The Spirit alone could perform the miracle of making man walk on the road of sanctity without a sense of his own worth.

Never look to other couples to measure your worth; look to God to fulfill your call. Don't compare yourself with other couples to measure your happiness; compare your obedience with God's design on your life to measure your faithfulness.

Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal—a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision—for us.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.