Garrett Hardin Quotes

Although the world has undergone many changes, both good and bad, in the past century, change need not imply the loss of traditional values. Nor is progress another word for moral decay. It is not development and progress which jeopardize values and morality but rather the absence of a strong and secure moral foundation developed first and foremost in the family. Surely, it is possible for one to enjoy the conveniences of modern life-airplanes and automobiles, computers and cell phones, microwaves and VCRs-without losing one's sense of values. When we love God, love our families, we can enjoy life without betraying the practices of decency, without abandoning the traditions of our cultures.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

In a chaotic world, fundamentalism can be a moral compass.

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.