Quotes about Values

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.