A
SHOW ABOUT VALUES
It also has the potential to help us grow in our understanding of
the ways each of us influences other people in our lives. Character
is not something that people are born with; it is something they
develop through the choices they make and the ways they learn from
their successes and their failures. We have influences on one another.
How are people being formed by what we do? How are we passing on
our values? If a future president is in our lives, what are we adding
to his or her character?
The show also challenges viewers to think about their own character
and values. What has made us into the people we have become? Are
the values we are passing on truly the values that need to be passed
on? Are there values we have learned that we should rethink and
perhaps discard?
--Darrel Manson
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one's values.
--Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
both.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural Address, January
20, 1953
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold
then in the right scale of values.
--Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats
away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and
his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly
and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false
and the false with the true.
--Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
ON
VALUES
Values that Christ has declared to be false are brought back into
evangelical favor and promoted as the very life and substance of the
Christian way. How eagerly do we seek the approval of this or that
man of worldly reputation. How shamefully do we exploit the converted
celebrity.
--A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)
We must accept the fact that God cares deeply about those in his family.
Then why doesn’t he prove his love? He does, but his values
differ from ours. We value health; he values patience. We value comfort;
he values peace. We value life without struggle; he values faith in
the midst of struggle. Thus, though he loves us, he doesn’t
exempt us from the tragic heartaches of life.
--ERWIN W. LUTZER (1941– )
In the physical universe, energy does not perish but is transformed.
In like manner, religious values are lifted into a higher case or
degenerate into a lower one. When the nuns gave up their long habits,
the girls put on maxicoats; when the rosary as a devotion was dropped,
the hippies put beads around their necks; when mysticism evaporated
into an irrelevant ideal, youths sought the ecstasy, not through the
long haul of asceticism, but the short trip through pharmaceuticals;
when seminaries, schools, and convents dropped discipline, which is
an inner violence against our vices, the street mobs picked up violence
but directed it against neighbor, race, and state. When the pulpits
no longer resounded with the Name “above every name,”
the young began calling themselves “Jesus people.”
--ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN (1895–1979)
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