One sign of a troubled democracy is that it has taken “freedom” and “license” to mean the same thing.

I need something to remind me that happiness is a gift, not a right. Pain does that quite expertly.

What am I owed except the responsibility to see life as a gift?

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

My rights do not include the right to do wrong.

To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?

Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

As far my priorities are concerned, there’s the front of the line, the end of the line, and everything in-between. And as far as God is concerned, He spends most of His time waiting to get in line.

Do we not understand that the absence of God is the presence of evil? And if we think ourselves so shrewd as to be able to ‘by-pass’ this reality, we have handed ourselves a ‘free-pass’ to our own destruction.