Quotes about Values

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.