Quotes about Principles
Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?
— Francine Rivers
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
— Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
— Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.
— Franklin Graham
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
— Abraham Kuyper
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
— Charles Swindoll
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The teaching of the Spirit — not without or against the Word but as something above and beyond it and in addition to it, without which we cannot see God's will — is the heritage of every believer. It is through the Word and the Word alone that the Spirit teaches, applying the general principles or promises to our special need.
— Andrew Murray
Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).
— Scott Hahn