Quotes about Adherence

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

Jude 1:3 commands us to "contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (emphasis added). Quite frankly, there are certain things that we need to just adhere to and fight for with deep passion and conviction—the national border issues, as we discussed in chapter 4.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want?

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ.

To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to him, and therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.