Quotes about Values

How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.

Dostoyevsky said, "All things are permitted." But man cannot live this way. So he makes a leap of faith and affirms values anyway. And when he does so, he reveals the inadequacy of a world without God.

Values and Duties Moral value refers to the worth of a person or action, whether it is good or bad. Moral duty refers to our obligation to act in a certain way, whether that action is right or wrong.

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'