Inspirational Quotes on Principles

“We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.”

“Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.”

“Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

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

“Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.”

“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend." To accept forgiveness means to admit that you've done something unspeakable that needs to be forgiven, and thus both parties must swallow the same thing: their pride.”

“Принципы!.. и весь-то ты на принципах, как на пружинах; повернуться по своей воле не смеет”

“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.”