MORAL VALUES
Values are defined as those fundamental
beliefs, principles, or standards which approve
individuals or their groups’ judgment, behaviour, and choices. They tell what
is right, wrong, important, desirable, or virtuous in life.
Remember that what is valuable is good,
worthy, respectable, appreciable , helpful, and upright, etc.
That which is not valuable is worthless,
base, harmful, offensive, useless, injurious, and unrespectable.
The word moral means : good, right,
just, virtuous, ethical, honourable, religiously sound, sacred, honest, just,
devout, decent, chaste, proper, fit,
pure, and blameless.
A short but important list of moral
values consists of:
Honesty,
truth, loyalty, faithfulness, sincerity, patience, forgiveness, tolerance,
love, affection, sympathy, empathy, charity, patriotism, righteousness,
impartiality, pity, mercy. helpfulness, compassion, integrity, gratitude, humility,
justice, co-operation, and companionship,
According to the English polymath and
writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) :
“Value is the life-giving power of
anything”.
A great and spiritually sound
country must continue to embrace moral values in all walks of life.
The French writer and philosopher
Voltaire (1694-1778) said:
“All sects are different, because
they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.”
According to the American poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882 ) :
“Morality without religion is only a
kind of dead-reckoning ---- an endeavour to find our place on a cloudy sea by
measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.”
E. H. Chapin, the American preacher
and editor (1814-1880) , said:
“Morality is the vestibule of
religion.”
To conclude, here are a few valuable
words of the Scottish divine Ralph
Wardlaw (1779-1853):
“Morality is religion in practice;
religion is morality in principle.”
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G.R.Kanwal
8th June 2026
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