Quotes About Foundation

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

When your daughter has a little help, a lot of empowerment, and a foundational faith, worries don't have to carry the same power in her life. With God's help, I really believe you can raise a worry-free girl. As The Message paraphrase of Matthew 11:28–30 says,

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops to think of this and weigh it will conclude that when the home is destroyed, the nation goes to pieces. There can be no question about this, and all historians or those who have followed a historical line of thought have come to that same conclusion

When the last piece of drywall is hung, you won't even be able to tell this skeleton is there. But it's what makes a cabin, a cabin; so essential that when God started fiddling around with his second human being he didn't start with a heart, muscle, or brain. He started with a part of the skeleton: the rib.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.