Quotes About Value

All my possessions for a moment of time.

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

If you want to know the value of free inquiry and a secular, liberal arts education, look at the Middle East. Simple isn't it?

is heir to all the heavens and numberless worlds, but we are his treasures. The redeemed are worth more than the universe. We ought to be delirious with this truth.

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.

Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read.

Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.

We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work, sweat, and sacrifice.

Dependency does not reduce value but rather grants dignity, a notion fundamentally counter to those for whom the freedom of birds is insulting. God's glory does not diminish ours, and our dignity is not a threat to God, for God's own glory, in part, is us. The glory of God is present to things as the graciousness of their being; things are never just themselves, they carry the weight of God along with them.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

Life's every moment, hour and day is important. So, man must use it purposefully.

Any learning through which you cannot earn money is useless. If wealth is only amassed and not used, then it loses its importance.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott

So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.

Turn a tree into a log and it will burn for you, but it will never bear living flowers and fruit.

It is easy to drown yourself effortlessly into that which is truly profound and do no realise its true worth. And since the restless illusion which brings no pleasure even if you drain it to the dregs lead us by the nose and makes us dance a merry dance to its tune and we take it to be the lost desirable thing

The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel, to ourselves and others, because we believe that ultimately we have no value.

Obviously, I said, she could do what she liked, and I would help her as much as I could. But I'd be wasting my time, she said. Not wasting it, I said. But spending it.

He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a value for her too in his attention, though its consequence is her captivity.