#precepts

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art world #began #cinematic #elitist #exercise

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

#bible #contained #crime #evils #injustice

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blessed #christian #christianity #disciple #divine

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#else #everyone #give #his #honestly

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#find #great #hand #happy #happy life

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #brethren #correct #earth #get

To write out the precepts again, we contend with them, and keep them; we build our humanity, and keep our humanity alive... Thay has named the precepts 'wonderful'... Wonderful because they can protect us, and show us how to live a joyous life, an interesting, adventurous, deep, large life, and how to be with one another, and with animals, plants, and all the Earth and universe. Wonderful because when we practice the precepts, we existentially become humane, we embody loving kindness... Standing in the midst of burning ruins, I was glad that I knew the precepts. Though I kept their tenets imperfectly, even in aspiration I created some invisible good that could not be destroyed... The Five Wonderful Precepts give clear and simple directions to finding that life. In devastation, I have blueprints for making home anew (90-92). --For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#home

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cometh #god #jesus #kingdom #known

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

#duties #education #god #good #man