Quotes About Adherence

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

Your only chance of winning is to adhere to the rules that you know work. Your skill can't change the odds, it can only be applied to make sure that you play the cards properly.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

NEVER Waive Late Charges Once you waive a late charge, you have just trained your resident that you do not enforce them. Stick to your guns.

Instruct your team and staff to NEVER confront criminals and thieves.

The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

Taqliding madhhabs is haram, but do taqlid my taqliding of someone taqliding another's opinion against taqliding madhhabs." meta-#wtfiqh

you become like what you worship;

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ultimate attainment of the barbarian, and unfortunately in these days of civilization's withering it has won a great many adherents. In pursuance of this ideal man becomes a hybrid thing, a brute-spirit, whose cruel mentality exerts a horrible spell upon weaklings.

Ideology is the glue that holds decentralized organizations together.

The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when subject to group processes; and third, an ability to adhere to a value system of one's own choosing as opposed to submitting to conventionality.

something about rules—you have to either follow them or break them with gusto.

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. (2 Thes. 2:15)

Theory became a personal badge, chosen as one might choose a party or church. It meant enlisting with a group, and theories began to have groupies rather like pop stars do.

Even if guilt is not originary, it is forever radical. It is the adherence of guilt to the human condition that, it seems, renders it not only unforgivable in fact, but unforgivable by right. Stripping guilt from our existence would, it seems, destroy the existence totally

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.