Quotes About Values

And to make things worse we started mixing religion with politics. An old argument just like the Crusades. Our God is better than your god. 'God Is with Us' on the Nazi belt buckles. Holy Wars against women and children, Catholics killing Protestants in Belfast. We went into Iraq for the wrong reasons and we left our friends behind. More people have been killed in the name of God and so-called 'faith-based values' than for any other reason.

If state tries to impose a set of values different from those of its citizens it forfeits trust and its authority erodes.

podemos decir que los "chulos bancarios" son tan despreciables como los proxenetas comunes.

Moral relativism and rights don't mix. Relativism undermines any appeal to rights: If rights exist, relativism is false; if rights exist, where do they come from? Again, we're pointed in the direction of a good God in whose image humans have been made—and thus who sets the parameters regarding our sexuality.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.

Be honest. What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.

the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.

Corporate worship is designed to once again clear up our confusion as to what is truly important in life.

everything you do and say in your life, every choice that you make, and everything you decide to invest in is a reflection of a system of internalized values in your heart.

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

His commands are not competing demands that flow out of competing value systems. They are a single fabric of threads that, woven together, define what it means to live in a way that is good, right, beautiful, and pleasing to him.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

when, in our contemporary idiom, "talking" about compassion becomes more important than "walking" in compassion – then words show their ever-lurking danger.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

This materialistic and competitive striving and needing 'to have and own' has been linked to deteriorating mental health, especially in young people.16

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have — and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.

There are only two things that are worthwhile: good music and a clear conscience.