Precept guides, but example draws.
To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
Example is the best precept.
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? answered, Delivery: Wh...
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality. p.403
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
