Quotes about Worth

Henri Nouwen said, "In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others…. thus we become free to be compassionate." When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Love is worth as much as prayer. Sometimes more.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last word for each of us belongs to him.

We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.