Commanded Quotes

185 quotes by 149 authors

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even… — Maimonides
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man… — Maxine Hong Kingston
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth… — Fulton J. Sheen
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody… — David Herbert Donald
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house… — Saint Augustine
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by… — Michel de Montaigne
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. — Winston Churchill
Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed. — Benjamin Franklin
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This… — Ambrose Bierce
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience… — Francis Quarles
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy — Joseph Joubert
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who… — Mohammad Khatami
Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than… — Saint Basil
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To… — Saint Basil
When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),… — Saint Basil
What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the… — James Anthony Froude
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. — Dwight L. Moody

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