Quotes about Values

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

We try to fend off this world we yearn for where men live together as brothers because there is something in each of us that wants to live not for his brother but for himself. We fend it off because we know in our terrible wisdom that the price we must pay for it is death, the death of self and all the values of self, the death that must take place before the life can come.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.

Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we should change God to suit our godlessness.

A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!