A Quote by Oswald Chambers

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

Oswald Chambers

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Cannot Gold Sympathy Understand Weight Which Worth Worth It

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Oswald Chambers
Scottish - Theologian
July 24, 1874 - November 15, 1917

But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Terry Pratchett

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

Isabella Bird

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.

Don Blanding

Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.

Clyde Drexler

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

Philip Danforth Armour

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

John McLeod

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

Audrey Meadows

Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner's eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.

Kyle Hill

That is gold which is worth gold.

George Herbert

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

Henry Ward Beecher

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Pericles

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Og Mandino

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment.