James Cash Penney Quotes

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Nature supports right action.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.