Many are asking, Are Missions worthwhile? Surely they are, if such souls are worth winning.
—Amy Carmichael
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
—Mark Twain
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Cicero
Thus a man is worth more than the whole world.
—Herman Bavinck
A theologian who is acquainted with all the latest issues of his science but who stands speechless at a sickbed and knows no answer to the questions of the lost sinner’s heart isn’t worthy of his title and office.
—Herman Bavinck
Surely God is worthy of my highest affection, and most devout adoration; he is infinitely worthy, that I should make him my last end, and live for ever to him. Oh that I might never more, in any one instance, live to myself!
—David Brainerd
This, through grace, I can say at present, with regard to life or death, ‘The Lord do with me as seems good in his sight;’ that whether I live or die, I may glorify him, who is ‘worthy to receive blessing, and honour, and dominion for ever. Amen.’
—David Brainerd
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
—David Brainerd
Is not eternal life worth the suffering of a moment’s pain? If I suffer with Him, I shall reign with Him (2 Tim. 2:12).
—John Flavel
God’s honor is something worth seeking. Man’s honor doesn’t amount to much.
—D. L. Moody
Some men say, “I am not worthy to come.” I never knew a man yet that was worthy. He does not profess to save worthy men; he saves sinners.
—D. L. Moody
Sometimes it’s absolutely worth our time to respond to comments and sometimes it’s an absolute waste of time. May God give us the wisdom to know the difference.
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government.
—George Washington
Try the rough water as well as the smooth. Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
—Voltaire
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.
Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
He is worthy, he hath plucked me as a brand out of the burning, and is continually comforting me on every side.
—George Whitefield
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
—Nikolai Gogol