Thomas Traherne Quotes

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

Circumstances should never alter principles!