In our religion [Islam], there is a special place in the hereafter for those who participate in jihad.
There's no crime in being a poor role model.
The mayor was a convicted user of cocaine while he served as mayor and was attacked for being a poor role model.
If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide..
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
I knew I needed to keep my nose clean and set the right example.
Thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
I'm just very interested in how we, as people, can live the right way.
We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.
Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.
God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
You just hope that your kids find what they love to do and abide by the law and make good decisions. The best you can do is instill such values in them.
My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.
Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.
When the government leads by the right example, who dares to go astray.
The society will have good children, if the mothers are good. If the mothers lack sense and knowledge, the children may go the wrong way.
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.