Quotes About Value

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Time was when I could come home from my travels with many pretty old things stowed away among my shirts and socks. But that was long ago, before the German troubled the world, before we fell to turning every penny twice over, before the tax collector claimed the third rasher of bacon on the dish. Also it seems that the pretty old things grow rare as eggs of the great auk and hard to find.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Rushing in and out of worship is wrong every time—there is always plenty of time to worship God.

There is only one relationship that really matters, and that is your personal relationship to your personal Redeemer and Lord. If you maintain that at all costs, letting everything else go, God will fulfill His purpose through your life. One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life.

The fact that it doesn't matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things—he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.

We should quit asking ourselves, "Am I of any use?" and accept the truth that we really are not of much use to Him. The issue is never of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. Once we are totally surrendered to God, He will work through us all the time.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

Satan does not tempt us to do wrong things; he tempts us in order to make us lose what God has put into us by regeneration, viz., the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come on the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting the point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.

God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having, namely, life with Himself.