(16 quotes found)
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
Dudley Nichols
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
Hannah Arendt
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
Denis Diderot
“My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.”
Bible
“I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.”
“Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.”
“This I had, because I kept thy precepts.”
“But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.”
