Quotes About Values

Rather than counting on the acquisition of knowledge to support and defend the faith, a trust-centered faith values and honors the wise—those who through experience and mature spiritual habits have earned the right to lead and are given a central role in nurturing faith in others.

No More Salvation by Society

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.

Why don't Edenists believe, then? Our culture proscribes nothing providing it doesn't harm the majority.

Ideologues are welcome to live with the values they admire, I have no problem with that, but you have to give the next generation the freedom and ability to go their own way. Anything else is fascism.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Do not become what you dispise.

Do not become what you despise.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

If you drive God out the world then you create a howling wilderness." (Copyright: www.changinglives.au.com )

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

We can either write history as a way of placing our own values and prejudice is at the center of every picture, or we can choose to allow for what sometimes is referred to as the "nomadic alternative"—a term politely coined by some recent researchers to celebrate their growing realization that nomadic people might have had some sound reasons for wanting to live their own life in their own way….

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

My master made me swear an oath and said, ëYou shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

You shall not steal.