Commandments Quotes

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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. — Gary Bauer
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be… — Ezra Taft Benson
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness. — Ezra Taft Benson
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. — Malcolm Bradbury
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. — Tupac Shakur
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments. — Richard Dawkins
Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create law based on the God… — Sarah Palin
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
His face was filled with broken commandments. — John Masefield
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on. — Steve Martin
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law… — Robert Breault
When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will… — Eckhart Tolle
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. — Randall Terry
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping… — Julian Huxley
... reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does… — Rajneesh

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