Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible and the Bible only as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.
It's funny I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
I force people to have coffee with me just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
The State is the altar of political freedom and like the religious altar it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'