Quotes about Values

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.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country's greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

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

Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you