The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. — William Ames Copy Share Image
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and… — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image