Quotes about Values

God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings. God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

The book of Proverbs warns us over and over again about negative associations. Constant exposure to wrong attitudes and wrong values will eventually take its toll in our lives. It is always easier to pull someone down than it is to lift him up. What kind of friends should you have? The kind who bring out the best in you, who lift you up, who encourage you, who make you a better person.

Realizing that life on earth is just a temporary assignment should radically alter your values. Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions. As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained