Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.