Principles Quotes - Page 10

• Presence always wins out over principles.

  Bill Johnson

  Winning

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.14, Charisma Media

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• If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Goes On, Taught

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• The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

  Bill Johnson

  Ideas, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.83, Charisma Media

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• The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spring, Heart, Saint

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.265

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• Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

  John Adams

  Voting, Curiosity, Wish

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• If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.

  Daniel Webster

  Cheer, Father, Shining

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.24

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• Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

  Gene Fowler

  School, Divine Revelation, May

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• In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is its Author it can be sustained just as much as any other truth in natural philosophy; if false it should be opposed and exposed just as much as any other error.

  John Taylor

  Truth, Philosophy, Errors

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• I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

  Ross Perot

  Country, America

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• America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

  John Adams

  Religious, America, Political

  Adams, John Quincy (1914). “Writings of John Quincy Adams Volume 4”, p.209, Best Books on

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• Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

  Ed Parker

  Sequence, Precedence

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• Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

  Bill Johnson

  Law, Voice, Obedience

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• Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

  Peter Marshall

  Christian, Fool, Pagan

  Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.224, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

  Bill Johnson

  Kings, Kingdoms, Pursue

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• The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

  David J. Schwartz

  Progress, Steps, Determined

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.315, Random House

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• Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

  David Berman

  Purpose, Care, May

  David Berman (1997). “Berkeley”

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• You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Hands

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, (Section II, Chap. II), 1759.

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• Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.

  John Adams

  Issues, Aristocracy, Paper

  John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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• Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

  St. George Tucker

  Two, Rights, Government

  St. George Tucker (1990). “A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia”

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• Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'

  John Adams

  Men, Views, Law

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• Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

  William Ellery Channing

  Powerful, Spring, War

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.34

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Prejudice, Balls

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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• War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

  William Ellery Channing

  Jesus, War, Roots

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.17

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• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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