Quotes about Values
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
— Stephen Covey
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
— Dallas Willard
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
— Andrew Johnson
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
— Harold S. Kushner
The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
— Henry B. Eyring