Quotes about Values

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.

Be honest. What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.

the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.

Corporate worship is designed to once again clear up our confusion as to what is truly important in life.

everything you do and say in your life, every choice that you make, and everything you decide to invest in is a reflection of a system of internalized values in your heart.

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.

His commands are not competing demands that flow out of competing value systems. They are a single fabric of threads that, woven together, define what it means to live in a way that is good, right, beautiful, and pleasing to him.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

There is no investment as poor as investment in the kingdom of self!