Quotes about Values

A century ago man's chief concern was his spiritual life; today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.

Sin has progressed and gained momentum; [man] seems to have lost his ability to be shocked. Behavior that was once considered abominable is now acceptable.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization... it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people... Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad".

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one's way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.

I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate.

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

Our society has traded strength of character for makeovers that deceive.

We act as if it doesn't matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us.