Quotes about Commandments

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. Votes: 5

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion. Votes: 4

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. Votes: 4

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. Votes: 4

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. Votes: 4

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Votes: 4

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. Votes: 4

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? Votes: 4

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. Votes: 4

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law. Votes: 3

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret. Votes: 3

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings. Votes: 3

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood". Votes: 3

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' Votes: 3

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create... Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. Votes: 3

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose. Votes: 3

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. Votes: 3

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. Votes: 3

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. Votes: 3

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. Votes: 3

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... Votes: 3

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. Votes: 3

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. Votes: 3

Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Votes: 3

Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first. Votes: 3

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. Votes: 3

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. Votes: 3

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. Votes: 3

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments Votes: 3

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments. Votes: 3

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that. Votes: 3

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law. Votes: 3

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. Votes: 3

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven Votes: 3

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. Votes: 3

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. Votes: 3

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. Votes: 3

[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display]. Votes: 3

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself. Votes: 3

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. Votes: 3

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. Votes: 3

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. Votes: 3

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners. Votes: 3

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments. Votes: 3

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. Votes: 3

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule. Votes: 3

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. Votes: 3

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot." Votes: 3

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. Votes: 3

It is true that many Americans find the (Ten) Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Votes: 3

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. Votes: 3

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. Votes: 3

For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'. Votes: 3

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs. Votes: 3

Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way. Votes: 3

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God"¦For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward. Votes: 3

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?" Votes: 3

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai. Votes: 3

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 what He had ensured by love. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published. Votes: 3

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. Votes: 3

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives. Votes: 3

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men. Votes: 3

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo. Votes: 3

Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. Votes: 3

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8). Votes: 3

In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person. Votes: 3

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. Votes: 3

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. Votes: 3

If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect. Votes: 3

When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight. Votes: 3

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism. Votes: 3

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. Votes: 3

Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty. Votes: 3

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions Votes: 3

I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer. Votes: 3

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. Votes: 3

Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy. Votes: 3

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not. Votes: 3

I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God. Votes: 3

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life. Votes: 3

Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course. Votes: 3

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin. Votes: 3

Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action. Votes: 3

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. Votes: 3

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

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 all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics. Votes: 3

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall. Votes: 3

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. Votes: 2

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Votes: 2

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments. Votes: 2

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. Votes: 2

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. Votes: 2

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. Votes: 2

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. Votes: 2

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 miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us. Votes: 2

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. Votes: 2

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 2

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected. Votes: 2

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments. Votes: 2

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers. Votes: 2

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. Votes: 2

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted. Votes: 1

All roads out of hell lead home. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you. Votes: 1

Keeping the commandments is a result of having love for God. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you. Votes: 1

All of Christ's commands are invitations and all of His invitations are commands. Votes: 1

God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free. Votes: 1

Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there! Votes: 1

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! Votes: 1

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price. Votes: 1

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. Votes: 1

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people. Votes: 1

Kukiuka Amri Kumi za Mungu si dhambi ni matawi ya dhambi. Dhambi ni kumkana Mungu na kumkubali Shetani. Votes: 1

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both. Votes: 1

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ. Votes: 1

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. Votes: 1

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.) Votes: 1

Thou shalt not live within thy meansNor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views. Votes: 1

If you are there for the Lord, He will be there for you. If you love Him and keep His commandments, you will have His Spirit to be with you and guide you. Votes: 1

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in. Votes: 1

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless. Votes: 1

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked. Votes: 1

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed? Votes: 1

It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover. Votes: 1

... reason accepts no commandments. Votes: 0

If ye love me keep my commandments Votes: 0

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments. Votes: 0

His face was filled with broken commandments. Votes: 0

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? Votes: 0

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three. Votes: 0

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments. Votes: 0

Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read! Votes: 0

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. Votes: 0

I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more. Votes: 0

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us. Votes: 0

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments. Votes: 0

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness. Votes: 0

Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments. Votes: 0

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion. Votes: 0

One of my style commandments is to always have beautifully radiant skin. Votes: 0

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments. Votes: 0

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. Votes: 0

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments. Votes: 0

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe Votes: 0

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' Votes: 0

How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know. Votes: 0

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity. Votes: 0

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God. Votes: 0

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray. Votes: 0

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. Votes: 0

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Votes: 0

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. Votes: 0

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments. Votes: 0

The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. Votes: 0

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. Votes: 0

Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments. Votes: 0

Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings. Votes: 0

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. Votes: 0

Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time! Votes: 0

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. Votes: 0

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. Votes: 0

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom. Votes: 0

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. Votes: 0

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. Votes: 0

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread." Votes: 0

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break. Votes: 0

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. Votes: 0

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further. Votes: 0

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example. Votes: 0

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. Votes: 0

Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you. Votes: 0

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister. Votes: 0

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. Votes: 0

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end. Votes: 0

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction. Votes: 0

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on. Votes: 0

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today. Votes: 0

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you. Votes: 0

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart. Votes: 0

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them. Votes: 0

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God. Votes: 0

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God. Votes: 0

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. Votes: 0

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments. Votes: 0

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise. Votes: 0

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest. Votes: 0

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it. Votes: 0

Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it. Votes: 0

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. Votes: 0

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. Votes: 0

As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves. Votes: 0

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness. Votes: 0

True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments. Votes: 0

Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy. Votes: 0

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments. Votes: 0

Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us. Votes: 0

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now. Votes: 0

Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith—faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments. Votes: 0

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them." Votes: 0

Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies. Votes: 0

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Votes: 0

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community. Votes: 0

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them. Votes: 0

If ye love me, keep my commandments." This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him. Votes: 0

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will. Votes: 0

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments. Votes: 0

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments. Votes: 0

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal. Votes: 0

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. Votes: 0

Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need. Votes: 0

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments. Votes: 0

The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves." Votes: 0

One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. Votes: 0

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. Votes: 0

Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason. Votes: 0

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them. Votes: 0

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live. Votes: 0

Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His. Votes: 0

You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.' Votes: 0

Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments. Votes: 0

What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments Votes: 0

Surely there could not be any doctrine more strongly expressed in the scriptures than the Lord’s unchanging commandments and their connection to our happiness and well-being as individuals, as families, and as a society. Votes: 0