The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.
Place principle above all else.
A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.
. . . we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.