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Quotes About Honor

Our obligation to love, honor and obey any being is in proportion to his loveliness, honor and authority. Therefore, sin against God, being a violation of infinite obligations must be a crime infinitely heinous and so deserving infinite punishment. If there is any evil in sin against God it is infinite evil.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The ultimate good is to treat something according to it's true value.
~ Jonathan Edwards
No, rather let me die this moment, than be left to bring dishonour on God's holy name.—I
~ Jonathan Edwards
There are many mansions in God's house because heaven is intended for various degrees of honor and blessedness. Some are designed to sit in higher places there than others; some are designed to be advanced to higher degrees of honor and glory than others are; and, therefore, there are various mansions, and some more honorable mansions and seats, in heaven than others.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Tis very little worth the while for us to pursue after honor in this world, where the greatest honor is but a bubble and will soon vanish away, and death will level all. Some have more stately houses than others, and some are in higher office than others, and some are richer than others and have higher seats in the meeting-house than others; but all graves are upon a level.
~ Jonathan Edwards
I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness, and not their reproach; knowing that true virtue and religion tended not only to the glory and felicity of young people in another world, but their greatest peace and prosperity, and highest dignity and honor, in this world; and above all things to sweeten and render pleasant and delightful even the days of youth. But
~ Jonathan Edwards
The humiliating climbdown, the necessary deception, and stepping over one's pride: they should each have their honoured place in a modern account of the political virtues.
~ Jonathan Glover
In this world, equality and personal autonomy were not sacred values. Honoring elders, gods, and guests, protecting subordinates, and fulfilling one's role-based duties were more important.
~ Jonathan Haidt
he still shouldn't do it because it degrades him, dishonors his creator, and violates the sacred order of the universe.
~ Jonathan Haidt
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
Woman is the way God says yes in this here world. He put the promise on us. The woman carries 'In the beginning' in her body. And every month God will use your blood to wash the moon so the beginning time can begin again. When you get to be a woman you got to carry the promise with respect, and honor all the mothers who passed it down to us.
~ Jonathan Odell
I have emphasized the religious roots of dishonoring the enemy and its toxic psychological results. However, any ideology that debases the enemy endangers the lives of soldiers while they fight.
~ Jonathan Shay
Unlike the Greeks, we believe that the dead are beyond harm, so we need often overlook the toxic residue left behind by disrespectful treatment of enemy dead.
~ Jonathan Shay
The fact that a humble commoner was more honourable than you'll ever be is hardly my affair. You do what you like.
~ Jonathan Stroud
They have a modest celebrity, sir. There's been a ballad.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~ Jonathan Swift
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
~ Emily Post
It feels good to have your work respected again.
~ Eminem
that coin purse rather than sell it. With a heavy heart, Vere accepted that his brother had been a military hero, but a man of little honour.
~ Emma Drummond
Pardon me, madam, if I have little respect for honor. I think it's only a euphemism for double standard and hypocrisy. - Clay Sutherland
~ Emma Merritt
Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio
~ Emmanuel Carrère
I always respect a woman.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Busca las cosas trascendentales, y sólo las hallarás en la H. Los hijos, con hache; el honor, la honra, con hache; Dios (Hacedor Supremo), con hache; hombre, con hache; la materialización de Cristo (La Hostia), con hache; la hidalguía, con hache; el habilitado, que es el que paga, con hache...
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros»
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela