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Quotes About Value

So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.
~ John Calvin
But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.
~ John Calvin
Accordingly, we shall find   angels and men to be dry, heaven to be empty, the earth to be   unproductive, and, in short, all things to be of no value, if we wish   to be partakers of the gifts of God in any other way than through   Christ.
~ John Calvin
First, we must understand that as long as Christ remains outside of us, and we are separated from him, all that he has suffered and done for the salvation of the human race remains useless and of no value for us. Therefore, to share with us what he has received from the Father, he had to become ours and to dwell within us.
~ John Calvin
The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.
~ John Connolly
It never paid to underestimate children.
~ John Connolly
Warraner would rather have been the king of nothing than the prince of something.
~ John Connolly
You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don't do fractions.
~ John Connolly
Look at you," he said. "A fractured man, a broken thing. I asked for money to kill you, but none would give it. Now I understand why. There is no value to you. You're nothing, and therefore nothing is what your life is worth. But I will kill you anyway, out of pity.
~ John Connolly
Look at you," he said. "A fractured man, a broken thing. I asked for money to kill you, but none would give it. Now I understand why. There is no value to you. You're nothing, and therefore nothing is what your life is worth. But I will kill you anyway, out of pity. I
~ John Connolly
And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.
~ John Connolly
integrity—in their specific sense of harmony between belief and action—may lack value when the underlying belief is badly wrong. And one way to determine when the belief is badly wrong is its tendency to cause harm to others.
~ John Corvino
We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!
~ John Cowper Powys
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
~ John D. MacDonald
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.
~ John D. Rockefeller
A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily
~ John D. Rockefeller
Thinking is a very natural process, but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and give too much value to it. Maezumi Roshi
~ John Daishin Buksbazen
A beautiful mind is worth more then a pretty face
~ John David Anderson
My family has never suggested to me that my identity or value to them depended on my station in life. I knew that they did not consider me any more or less valuable because I held some political office. They valued me as a husband and father, whether or not I won an election. Nor did they regard holding office on Capitol Hill or in the Missouri statehouse as the epitome of success. Quite the contrary, my family had endured numerous personal sacrifices because of my public positions.
~ John David Ashcroft
Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
~ John Derbyshire
If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon conscious experience—we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.
~ John Dewey
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
~ John Dewey
The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.
~ John Dickson Carr