Quotes about Values

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

I want to develop discernments that say an unapologetic "no" to ways that violate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.