“Principles are concentrated truth, packaged for application to a wide variety of circumstances. A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and compelling circumstances.” Richard G. Scott
Author: Chuck Lucas
I am the Editor and Founder of https://principlesneverfail.us/ a blog dedicated to principle centered personal development. The social, intellectual, physical, and spirtual challenges facing individuals and the communities in which we live in 2020 and beyond will require the best that is within us. True principles anchor us to the truths previously discovered. We can move forward into the future with confidence on the correct path if we do not forsake the truths we already know.
My over 50 year quest has been to discover true principles and seek to understand and strive to apply them in my life. My hope is that some of what I have found may be of value to my family, friends, and to you.
“It’s not your fault you’re this way, but it’s your responsibility to work on it.” BYU Professors Gary M. Burlingame and Kara I. Cattani
“Speak to yourself in loving ways and talk about yourself with others as gently as you would speak about another person with your same challenges.” — Kara Cattani
Personal example is more eloquent than exhortation. There is a real difference between false freedom and true freedom. It is the difference between doing what we wish(want) to do and doing what we ought(should) to do. License to do wrong does not justify wrongdoing.
We must have inner strength to protect personal freedom and preserve us from the yoke of bondage. (surrender to pornography or to chemical compounds)
To develop self-discipline, we must confine our individual actions within the delimiting bounds prescribed by the law of the land, moral law, and divine law. When one’s individual actions are sternly disciplined to conform within those limits, then the full exercise of one’s freedom can be enjoyed. (“Liberty, License, and Law,” America’s Freedom Festival, Provo, Utah, July 1,1990) Russell M.Nelson
“By increments so exquisitely gradual that they might have passed unnoticed, I could have ended up being totally untrue to myself and living a life I hated.” Founder of Liberty Media Peter Barton
“There is no going back, but only forward. Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can.” Thomas S. Monson