Quotes about Values

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of the most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us that we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.

He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!

I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people who survive encroachment by another culture need story to survive. And a storytelling tradition is something Plains people share with both ancient and contemporary monks; we learn our ways of being and reinforce our values by telling tales about each other.

religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.