Commandment Quotes

155 quotes by 125 authors

Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace… — Mairead Corrigan
So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it… — Norman Vincent Peale
Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass… — Saint Basil
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing… — Charlie Campbell
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment… — Elie Wiesel
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself… — Charles William Eliot
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a… — Alice Miller
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea… — Thomas Paine
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose… — Phyllis Schlafly
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the… — John Shelby Spong
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And… — David A. Bednar
Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the… — Nora Roberts
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to… — Frederick Buechner
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never. — Walter Scott
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. — Stephen King
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. — Herman Melville
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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