Quotes About Principle

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

God's great Law is spiritual.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.