Commandments Quotes · Page 2

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point…

— I. F. Stone

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any…

— John Calvin

Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].

— Fob James

For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

— Malcolm Bradbury

Worthy partakers of the sacrament are in harmony with the Lord and put themselves under covenant with Him to always remember His…

— David B. Haight

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

— Bill Bright

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free.”

— Cecil B. DeMille

“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but…

— G.K. Chesterton

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of…

— Elie Wiesel

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as…

— Clement of Alexandria

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If…

— John Stott

We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and…

— Louis Farrakhan

... reason accepts no commandments.

— Ayn Rand

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years…

— Cecil B. DeMille

[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our…

— George Washington

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15…

— Carl Reiner

God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots,…

— Ellen G. White

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is…

— Ben Salmon

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing…

— James Russell Lowell

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go…

— Terry Pratchett