I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.
