God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.
Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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