Quotes About Values

Both my parents had a great influence on me. I never heard my father use a profane or even a slang word. I always respected him because of his complete integrity. In his business dealings his handshake was like a contract. He was as good as his word. Of all the people I have ever known, my mother had the greatest influence on me.

Movie and television stars lay down the law of fashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.

Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.

Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.

If we don't know who we are, we'll never know how we ought to live.

Materialism may do what a foreign invader could never hope to achieve—materialism robs a nation of its spiritual strength.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.

We do not need a new moral order; the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai.

We say, "Happy are the clever, for they shall inherit the admiration of their friends"; "Happy are the aggressive, for they shall inherit a career"; "Happy are the rich, for they shall inherit a world of friends and a house full of modern gadgets." Jesus said, "[Happy] are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth" [see Matthew 5:5]. If we want the secret of happiness . . ."meekness" is a basic key.

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality.

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to their parents will no have true respect from anyone

No subject is closer to my heart than the family . . . The moral foundation of our country is in danger of crumbling as families break up and parents neglect their responsibilities.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.