Quotes about Values

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?

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.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

In our society, where money, power, and pleasure are the name of the game, the body truth is bleeding from thousand wounds.

The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiritual values of humility, long suffering, endurance, and obedience are to be affirmed alongside self-reliance, freedom, proclamation, mission, and authority.

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.

There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.