Commands Quotes

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Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:… — C.S. Lewis
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
When God commands, do it! — Joseph Smith, Jr.
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thoughtâ€¦ but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art… — Niccolo Machiavelli
But still, Iâ€™d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I… — Barbara Kingsolver
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done. — Leonardo da Vinci
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… — John le Carre
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas
The â€˜experimentalâ€™ writer, then, is simply following the storyâ€™s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story… — Thomas Ligotti
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not… — Stephen R. Lawhead
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… — Brother Lawrence
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go. — Robert Ludlum
But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love… — Elisabeth Elliot
You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands. — Lisa Kleypas
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. — Frank Herbert
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either… — N.K. Jemisin

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