Why Principles Matter

Open your mind to the importance of principle. It just may be what the world remembers you for.

You have a tremendous power to set the direction of your life. For many of us, this power goes unused and unrealized.fizkes/Shutterstock

Paraphrasing the English journalist and philosopher G. K. Chesterton, New Testament scholar N.T. Wright wrote:

“The purpose of an open mind… is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.”