Commands Us Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
— Edmund Burke
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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
— John Owen
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
— William James
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
— Paul Ricoeur
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The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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It is the easiest thing in the world to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way.
— Keith Green
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The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits...…
— John Calvin
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Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we…
— Kirk Douglas
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God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges
— Dwight L. Moody
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God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
— Myles Munroe
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
— Blaise Pascal
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to…
— Gary North
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You can't trust all people with you but love all people more than yourself..The Lords commands us..
— Mariane Corbito
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.
— Blaise Pascal
Who Wrote These Commands Us Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Commands Us Quotes as follows: