Quotes of Precept - somelinesforyou

“ The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse. ”

- Immermann

“ Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. ”

- JOHN C. MAXWELL

“ If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. ”

- Bible

“ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. ”

- Bible

“ And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. ”

- Bible

“ What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. ”

- Gary North

“ Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little. ”

- Bible

“ The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. ”

- Valentina Tereshkova

“ But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; / Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. ”

- Bible

“ For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ”

- Bible

“ You know, Catholicism, we believed in the teachings of Cathol, and everything it stood for. ”

- Eddie Izzard

“ We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. ”

- Bible

“ LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. ”

- Bible

“ What list? Ten Commandments? What Ten Commandments? ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ”

- Bible

“ Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him. ”

- Ezra

“ Teaching is of more importance than urging. ”

- Martin Luther

“ In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. ”

- Maxim Gorky

“ The films should be influenced by the individual commandments to the same degree that the commandments influence our daily lives. ”

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. ”

- Ali Hoseini Khamenei

“ What are we teaching, anyway? ”

- Joseph Farah

“ There is no such thing as free regulation. ”

- John Hutton

“ Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ”

- Frank Gelett Burgess

“ Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ Just principles conceive just notions and perform good actions in consequence of them. ”

- Hugh Blair
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