*VALUES - see VIRTUES and INNER
Everything of value has a price. (A Matter of Conscience, Christopher News Notes 8/96, SRC Newsletter March/April 97)
FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE ARE THE THREE NONNEGOTIABLE VALUES NECESSARY IN THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS. Religion should pass 3 security checks: Does it build faith? Can it inspire hope? (It must not contribute to the cynicism, despair, or negativity that is seemly part of human nature.) Does it generate love? (Which we define as recognizing that people deserve to be addressed with dignity and respect.) (Rev. Robert H. Schuller, p36 of TV Guide, 3/29/97)
We need TV programming that uplifts people, that focuses on triumph over adversity and showing people coming to true religious values - love, inclusion, acceptance, tolerance - not from dogma. (Jack Canfield, TV Guide)
Religion is not necessarily driven by conflict. There are people for whom religion is not a negative or fearful reaction to the world or to difference, but for whom it's the defining experience of life. (Rv Peter Gomes, TV Guide)
The "economic gap" is clearly between rich and poor, but much more crucial - and much more hidden - is the "culture gap" or "values gap". (Everything, p327)
In one chapter of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver encounters a handful of people who are fated never to die, and they are the most pitiable of creatures. A knowledge of our mortality makes us take life more seriously. Time is precious because we know we have a limited supply of it. The knowledge that our years are limited makes our choices matter. This knowledge of our mortality gives us the opportunity to declare that certain things - our families, our country, our faith - are supremely valuable to us because we are willing to risk losing our lives to defend them. (How Good, p155,157-8)