Quotes About Values

your soul is the one thing worth living for. It is the part of you which ought always be considered first. No place, no employment is good for you, which injures your soul. No friend, no companion deserves your confidence, who makes light of your soul's concerns.

Fathers and mothers, you may send your children to the best schools, give them Bibles and prayer books, and fill them with head knowledge, but if all this time there is no regular training at home, I fear it will go hard in the end with your children's souls. Home is the place where habits are formed; home is the place where the foundations of character are laid; and home gives the bias to our tastes and likings and opinions. Be sure then that there is careful training at home.

Recordemos que los placeres para los que viven millones de personas difieren, quizá, en su concepto de lo que constituye el verdadero placer, pero todos coinciden en tratar de obtenerlo por sobre todas las cosas.

when you know how a nation deals with the Bible you may generally know what a nation is.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

1. In our scientifically oriented culture, traditional understandings of morality and related notions are considered passé.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind.

I use the term periconscious to suggest that higher forms of consciousness had to emerge evolutionarily from specific types of preconscious neural processes, and that the primitive affective systems that will be described in this text may have been the major gateways for the development of cognitively resolved awareness of values that appear to exist in the world.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you stand for something and do a remarkable job of

Perhaps the greatest social servise that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family George Bernard Shaw

There was a time in this country when you'd be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you're a fool for helping. -Mike McIntyre

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Spiritual life may initially be focused on self-transformation, but as mindfulness and compassion grow we naturally become attentive to the values of the society around us. When we do so, we can see how the popular promise of happiness through greed and excess consumerism is increasingly shallow and false.

When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Hodge's attitude toward women centered in his understanding of marriage and family values. As he wrote, "Marriage is a divine institution ordained by God for His glory and the happiness of men." While a husband in the marriage ceremony had to promise to be "faithful and loving," the woman had in addition to promise to be "obedient.