Quotes About Values

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

But what he no longer had was a conscience he could live with.

Da professore di letteratura fervidamente coscienzioso qual ero, ho sempre gradito finire l'ora con qualcosa di commovente che gli studenti potessero portare con sè dalla classe incontaminata, fuori, nel mondo corrotto di stuzzichini preconfezionati e pop star e droga.

The late Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical American author, wrote: "For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But—often with tears in their eyes—they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

I wonder about the enormous energy being devoted these days to restoring morality to the United States. Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

in John Adams' words, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counter-culture of ordinary pilgrims who insist on living a different way. We can make the world stop and think before pulling a trigger, or exacting revenge, or neglecting the vulnerable, or practising euthanasia on those it deems 'devoid of value'.

Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday school class throughout his presidency, winning the grudging respect of reporters who had once questioned his religious talk as a political ploy. Even so, he lost many Christians' votes to Ronald Reagan, the only U.S. president to have been divorced and who rarely attended church and gave little to charity, mainly because Reagan supported many of the favorite causes of the religious Right.

The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.

Según Abraham Heschel, la sociedad antigua apreciaba tres cosas por encima de todo: la sabiduría, la salud y el poder. (¿Ha cambiado algo desde entonces?) Los profetas hebreos atacaban esos tres valores, porque cualquiera de ellos podía convertirse en ídolo.

No society in history has attempted to live without a belief in the sacred, not until the modern West.

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.