Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

I'm a black man who grew up in America. I'm a father of four children. They don't all have the same mother. I own a business.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.