I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.

One of the things I admire most about John is his ability to hold compassion in one hand and justice in the other. He offers both liberally and yet they don't cancel each other out.

But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they'll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You're giving up being a pastor, but I'm not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...