Quotes About Worth

So to "love God with all your mind" means engaging all your powers of thought to know God as fully as possible in order to treasure him for all he is worth.

I exist to magnify Jesus Christ. That is, I am on this planet for one ultimate reason: to do whatever I can to make Jesus Christ known and treasured—a knowing and a treasuring that accords with his infinite beauty and immeasurable worth.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

and empowering them to enjoy making much of him. As Edwards says, "God is their good." Therefore if God would do us good, he must direct us to his worth, not ours. The

But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart's satisfaction

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service."

One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

A book worth reading is worth owning.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership issue. Who, other than its creator, is to say what a work of fiction means or is worth? It can take years to write a novel and only a few hours for a critic, or a reviewer rushing for a tight deadline, to trash it.

ensure your losses don't carry costs too high to make the knowledge worth it.

We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what's valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and reject.

It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any time seemed almost trivial...He let his fingers riffle through the pages and felt a tingling, as if those pages were alive… The fingers loosened, and the book they had held moved slowly and then swiftly across the still body and fell into the silence of the room.

If intellectual greatness, apart from any higher consideration, is worthy of honor, then our homage is due to Satan, whose intellectual power no man has ever equaled. But when perverted to self-serving, the greater the gift, the greater curse it becomes. It is moral worth that God values. Love and purity are the attributes He prizes most.

Again and again Christ had taught that true greatness is measured by moral worth. In the estimation of heaven, greatness of character consists in living for the welfare of our fellow men, in doing works of love and mercy. Christ the King of glory was a servant to fallen man.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn't want you is twice as desirable.

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

A challenge is often worrisome. But with time, it would be worth it. So never mind your present or subsequent challenges, no matter how worrisome they may seem to you. -Emeasoba George