Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The only thing that mattered was the honor and joy of walking with God.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.