Family Values Quotes

• If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• ... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Poverty
  • Building
  • Darwinism

• Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Community
  • Christians
  • Love of Christ

• A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

  

  Bob Allen
  • Blindness
  • Occur
  • Family Values

• These antifamily traditions are too widely attested in our sources to be ignored (they are found in Mark, Q, and Thomas, for example), and they show that Jesus did not support what we today might think of as family values. But why not? Evidently because, as I have already emphasized, he was not teaching about the good society and about how to maintain it. The end was coming soon, and the present social order was being called radically into question. What mattered was not ultimately the strong family ties and social institutions of this world. What mattered was the new thing that was coming, the future kingdom. It was impossible to promote this teaching while trying to retain the present social structure. That would be like trying to put new wine into old wineskins or trying to sew a new piece of cloth to an old garment. As any wine master or seamstress can tell you, it just won’t work.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Support
  • Jesus
  • Kingdom

• You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Family Values

• I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Life
  • I Love
  • Appreciate