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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
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
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
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
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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
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 Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
— John Adams
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge
— Mary Shelley
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
— William Howard Taft
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
— George Farquhar
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
— William Warburton
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
Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
— George Washington
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
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
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
— Benjamin Franklin
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
— George Herbert