Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.
If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.
People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.
The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.
I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
This is an excellent statement of one of the fundamental principles of many Christian Religious Philosophers.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
There is no possibility of change in Islamic principles, which have not changed in the last 1,400 years.
Principles are eternal.
The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.
I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!
Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.
If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.