Quotes about Principle

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, "No".

The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.

Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.