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If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my part, as I feel neither the right nor the wish to entertain such opinions of my species and my country, I think it is not necessary to despair of them. In my opinion, human societies, like individuals, amount to something only in liberty...And God forbid that my mind should ever be crossed by the thought that it is necessary to despair of success... You will allow me to have less confidence in your teaching than in the goodness and justice of God.

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out, extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.

If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to the principles of the Kingdom

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost

If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

If you don’t have the faith in principles and you don’t believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won’t be able achieve anything in life.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.

If you want to know what a person is truly made of, don't rush to define them until you meet them and see the principles they live by.

I mean if those moral principles are out there and God is just telling us what it is, then why do we need the middleman? Just tell us the reasons why it’s wrong and okay. And if it’s just because God said it what if he didn’t say murder was wrong, would that make it right? No, it would still be wrong.

I imagine that my own children when elderly will cast a critical eye upon my own mind-set of today. How I would love to know in what ways it appears--will appear--archaic or perverse. Ours is on the whole a pretty tolerant and liberal-minded age; can tolerance be stretched yet further? Some would say, indeed yes. That there are still areas of ignorance and insensitivity. Or could there be a reversion--could we come to seem unprincipled, licentious, devoid of standards? Somewhere, at some level, the seeds of change will be starting already to sprout. Society does not support stasis.

Invest in your purpose and land of promise

In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles

It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time

It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

It is only when we meet the needs of the people around us that God meets our needs

It is our responsibility as believers to bring the will of God to the people

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

It is only when you trust in God that you can make it life

It is our business to restore the earth back to God through the principles of the Kingdom.

It is only when you understand that God is in everyone that you can appreciate and treat them differently

It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Live your life for the advancement of the Kingdom

I used to be in control of a yard on Milton Street, where fellas could come there and sleep. If they came there with jewelry, money, guns, or drugs, whatever they came with in their possession under my watch, they always left with what they came with. There was no one there trying to take advantage of them, or trying to take their possessions. This was one of the main things that I stood for, but in other parts of the gang that trust was not there. They did not feel safe. Even though we were a part of the same gang, they knew that they could be robbed by their own fellow gang members. Galen ‘Ninja’ Nordelus former leader of the Public Terrorist Rebellions through Milton Street

Living for your purpose warrants eternal blessings

Living for your purposes warrants eternal blessings

Living a fruitful and purposeful life has eternal blessings

Living in God’s righteousness and conducting your work according to God’s golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success

Look for principles and virtues that will help you grow bigger from inside.

Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny

Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster

Love everybody, believers or not