Quotes about Values

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.   

The source of a Christian ethic is not the reality of one's own self, not the reality of the world, nor is it the reality of norms and values. It is the reality of God that is revealed in Jesus Christ.

Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.