Quotes About Principle

Here, then, is a fundamental principle of Bible study: we reflect first on what the words communicated to those who heard them; then we work out, with the help of the Spirit, how they apply to us.

You see, we don't like murder as a way of argument—that's what really marks the Liberal!

For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

Is that what he thinks? I mean, I know it's the truth, but it shouldn't be what he thinks. Husbands should think the best of their wives, as a matter of principle.

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

Every life is a profession of faith.

I believe in the right to life.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

We must teach our people the principle of trust

Honesty is a big ticket item seemingly just out of the reach of the frivolous!

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.

impose a hearth tax, on the principle that the number of hearths in a person's dwelling gave a rough indication of their wealth.

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

The Hegelian dialectic could be "turned right side up" only by one who was convinced of the soundness of the basic principle of Feuerbach's philosophy, viz., that it is not thinking that determines being, but being that determines thinking.

When the Lord looks upon the Church in America today what does He see? Is today's America what the Apostle John saw when the Church of Laodicea was revealed to him.