Max Lucado Quotes

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

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

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

You have this life in this body, and it's really fragile. But what you have inside is what you have to offer, and it's just as important as anyone else's.