“The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To me, everyday is an observance of a 'holy day' for 'this is the day the Lord has made' and as such… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children,… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Religious Observance, does not mean: You attend services and then sit back and watch the world pass you by, ¦ In the… — John Rokas Copy Share Image
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image