Quotes about Principles

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

Conscience is a man's compass.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

in John Adams' words, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.

The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder".

With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Paul embodied principles of leadership that he also described in his letters. He certainly thought the life of individual believers and churches ought to resemble a solid foundation on Christ (see 1 Corinthians 3:9-17). Looking at Paul's life, we can see leadership all the more clearly.