Quotes about Principles

The same influences are working today through those who try to explain the law of God in such a way as to make it conform to their practices. This class do not attack the law openly, but put forward speculative theories that undermine its principles. They explain it so as to destroy its force.

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

voters base their decisions on values as much as any other factor.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.