Quotes About Values

I'd remember that if it came down to it, I'd rather be arrested for shoplifting than ever be an evangelical leader again. There was a certain basic and decent honesty about stealing pork chops that selling God had lacked.

If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.

People are more important to Him than human traditions.

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Rather than reflecting an immutable human nature, morals are closely tied to the way we organize ourselves.

Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.

The colonist is not content with stating that the colonized world has lost its values or worse never possessed any. The "native" is declared impervious to ethics, representing not only the absence of values but also the negation of values. He is, dare we say it, the enemy of values. In other words, absolute evil.

Those values which seemed to ennoble the soul prove worthless because they have nothing in common with the real-life struggle in which the people are engaged.

His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

Out of difference can come the reinforcement of two important values. One is tolerance and the other is awareness that people who disagree over the things they hold dear really can live together in love and respect.