Quotes about Ethics

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Not unlike Saul, many leaders in our homes, corporations, and churches are more concerned with their goals than with their offspring. Because of this attitude, these leaders view God's people as resources to serve their vision instead of seeing the vision as the vehicle to serve the people. The success of the vision justifies the cost of wounded lives and shattered people. Justice, mercy, integrity, and love are compromised for success. Decisions are based on money, numbers, and results.

The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.

A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.

is good enough? In these times the terms good and God are seemingly synonymous. We believe that what is generally accepted as good must be aligned with God's will. Generosity, humility, and justice are good. Selfishness, arrogance, and cruelty are evil. The distinction seems pretty straightforward. But is that all there is to it? If good is so obvious, why does Hebrews 5:14 teach that we must have discernment to recognize it?

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

there is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.

Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same.

Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER