Rules

The good cannot be determined by rules.  Good is found in principle applied rightly for the sake of others.

Basic Philosophical Treatise

Truth leads to the good. To live the good is to live truth. But both truth and goodness can only be communicated to others through beauty.

Ethics and Sin

Sin is not so much a matter of being immoral. It is doing something that is unacceptable to God, and so harms your relationship with Him. Since God is the source of our strength, avoid sin, repent of sin, so your relationship with God will be unhindered. But don’t call other people immoral because they are deeply involved in sin. They may not be. They just don’t have a relationship with God. So they are weak without Him.

Drenched Thoughts

“Lord Jesus Christ, so permeate my thoughts that it is obvious I am thinking of you. How would it be obvious?... If your example so convicted me that I proclaimed what you teach even though scorned and ridiculed, then people could see in me—… in my daily living—that I was thinking of you.”
-Soren Kierkegaard

Community Code

Every organization should have a foundational statement of belief or ethic. The belief of a hospital should be that of offering medical assistance to all who have need. The belief of a business should be that making money is a positive thing as long as done within ethical guidelines. The belief of a Christian community should be that Jesus is Lord and whatever He says is true. No one should allow one to join an organization that disagrees with its fundamental belief, or else they will tear that organization down from the inside out.

The Moral Requirment of Freedom

Freedom is that which we must give to others. Should God give each human sovereignty, then so should we. But freedom is that which we must not allow for ourselves. For the sake of others’ freedom, let us be without rights. For the freedom of God’s love, let us be chained. For the freedom of the gospel, let us be killed.

Procrastination

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank

Reverence for Life

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
-Albert Schweitzer

Hiding From Ethics

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation -- this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
-Albert Schweitzer