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One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
— Ravi Zacharias
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
— Seneca The Younger
These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.
— Lucian Of Samosata
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his
— M. James Penton
The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
— Seneca The Younger
Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
— Noah Webster
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
— Henry Fielding
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
— Marcel Proust
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ... if one follows patterns.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
— Bassui Tokusho
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man ...
— Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
— John Adams
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
— Steven Spielberg
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.
— Herbert Hoover
spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.
— James Bryan Smith
The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.
— Gardiner Spring
You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.
— Gautama Buddha
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge
— Mary Shelley
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
— John Amos Comenius
Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teachers.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
— John Dryden
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
— George Herbert
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
— Benjamin Franklin
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!
— Jean De La Bruyere
I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
— George Washington
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
— Gouverneur Morris
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
— William Warburton
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
— George Farquhar
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
— William Howard Taft
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.
— Peter Cundall
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
— Nathan Myhrvold
God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
— Thomas Aquinas
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
— Francis Bacon
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
— Joseph Addison
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The icy precepts of respect.
— William Shakespeare