Quotes About Principle

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength and vigour, the beating down of the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth more. This is the folly of some men; they set themselves with all earnestness and diligence against the appearing eruption of lust, but, leaving the principle and root untouched, perhaps unsearched out, they make but little or no progress in this work of mortification.

That in the sanctification of believers, the Holy Ghost doth work in them, in their whole souls, their minds, wills, and affections, a gracious, supernatural habit, principle, and disposition of living unto God; wherein the substance or essence, the life and being, of holiness doth consist.

The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. And this is a second principle of my ensuing discourse.

Wherefore as condemnation is not the infusing of a habit of wickedness into him that is condemned, nor the making of him to be inherently wicked, who was before righteous, but the passing a sentence upon a man with respect to his wickedness; no more is justification the change of a person from inherent unrighteousness to righteousness, by the infusion of a principle of grace, but a sentential declaration of him to be righteous.

The Spirit of God createth a new nature in us, which is the principle and next cause of all acts of the life of God.

Instead we were treated to virtual silence, plus the standard reaction by the legal mainstream and commentators in the press. This ruling was a problem. In difficult times too much money was involved. The ruling only stated a principle; surely it didn't need to be enforced. Perhaps it could be ignored.

The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three

Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice we make

In most cases, the difficult thing to do is the right thing to do.