Mary Astell Quotes

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.