Quotes about Values

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?

Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture.

What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.