Commandments Quotes

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

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.

His face was filled with broken commandments.