Prince Quotes

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.