Command Quotes

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Much of command is the ability to take command. — Louis L'Amour
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,… — Ajahn Chah
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you… — Jimmy Doolittle
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths — Moses Mendelssohn
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is… — Randy Alcorn
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not… — Bainbridge Colby
But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of… — James Gilmour
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered… — James Gilmour
I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ. — James Gilmour
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you… — Hudson Taylor
Why wait for a call when you have a command? — Robert Hughes
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is… — James Gilmour
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who… — Charles Studd
Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on… — Lewis B. Smedes
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man… — Henry B. Eyring
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward. The greatest we… — Helen Mirren
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands! — Davy Jones

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