Quotes about Principle

The "spiritual life" is then the perfectly balanced life in which the body with its passions and instincts, the mind with its reasoning and its obedience to principle and the spirit with its passive illumination by the Light and Love of God form one complete man who is in God and with God and from God and for God. One man in whom God is all in all. One man in whom God carries out His own will without obstacle.

The vital center of this new creation is a free and spiritual principle called a soul. The soul is the life of this being, and the life of the soul is the love that unites it to the principle of all life—God.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.