Unchanging Principles Quotes

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

These protesters, opposing me or our church, they're protesting the eternal Word of God, and guess what - they're not going to be successful in toppling the Word of God.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Textbooks must be constant over many years for students to trust the system. But if we say something is true today and deny it tomorrow, students will lose faith in us. Consistency is at a premium.

There is no possibility of change in Islamic principles, which have not changed in the last 1,400 years.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

There is no law governing all things.

I think to keep my principles. To keep my principles, I think, is the most important thing. Every day, everyone change. It's normal, but your principle never can change.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.