Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them. . and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.
When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely. ' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
