James E. Faust Quotes

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

Always get back to your core principles.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.