Quotes about Values

We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.