Quotes About Principles

If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.

First master the fundamentals.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Similarly, if we ever get immigration reform, it will likely be forged in a series of political compromises with no coherent principles or philosophy. I

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.