Principles Quotes - Page 2

When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.

For Bonhoeffer, the relationship with God ordered everything else around it. A number of times he referred to the relationship with Jesus Christ as being like the cantus firmus of a piece of music. All the other parts of the music referred to it, and it held them together. To be true to God in the deepest way meant having such a relationship with him that one did not live legalistically by "rules" or "principles." One could never separate one's actions from one's relationship to God. It was a more demanding and more mature level of obedience, and Bonhoeffer had come to see that the evil of Hitler was forcing Christians to go deeper in their obedience, to think harder about what God was asking. Legalistic religion was being shown to be utterly inadequate.

Eric Metaxas

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.

Honoré de Balzac

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

Cyril Connolly

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Ian Fleming

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

Jim Butcher

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Charlotte Brontë

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

Lisa Kleypas

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.

Steve Toltz

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

C.W. Ceram

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

Jean M. Auel

I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'" And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why? She examined herself, trying to see what was different. The stress, that was new. And when she looked at that, she recognized that the hardest part of her day lately was working to avoid confrontation with Captain Montrose. That’s when it came to her. In that moment, sitting nearly naked in Rook’s living room, playing some silly nineteenth-century parlor game, she came to an unexpected insight. In that moment Nikki woke up and saw with great clarity who she had become - and who she had stopped being. Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her captain and had lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.

Richard Castle

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

David Allen

To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them

Sunday Adelaja

Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God

Sunday Adelaja

To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles

Sunday Adelaja

To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles

Sunday Adelaja

Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God

Sunday Adelaja

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth

Sunday Adelaja

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office.

Charlotte Brontë

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.

Carlos Wallace

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

Cheryl A. Bachelder

For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles

Sunday Adelaja

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

Edward Forbes

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

Karen Swallow Prior

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Christopher Hitchens

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.

Thomas Paine

The best is to prioritize kingdom laws and principles

Sunday Adelaja

God has created the world to be run by His principles.

Sunday Adelaja

How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would’ve never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them.

Drexel Deal

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

Sonia Sotomayor

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

Jessa Crispin

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

George Packer

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

Robert Bolt

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

Sunday Adelaja

The church must be involved in all the seven spheres of life extending the virtues and principles of the kingdom of God

Sunday Adelaja

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

P.G. Wodehouse

To live a kingdom live on earth is to live by principles

Sunday Adelaja

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

James Davison Hunter

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

Winston S. Churchill

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Leo Szilard

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Kartik Mehta

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

Kishore Bansal

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.

John Bunyan

About my interests: I don’t know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink – it’s my melancholy conviction that I’ve scarcely ever had enough to eat (this is because it’s impossible to eat enough if you’re worried about the next meal) – and I love to argue with people who do not disagree with me too profoundly, and I love to laugh. I do not like bohemia, or bohemians, I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure, and I do not like people who are earnest about anything. I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one’s own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.

James Baldwin

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

Sameh Elsayed

It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

Drexel Deal

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

Katina Ferguson

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Steve Goodier

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Mike Gayle

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