Command Quotes - Page 18

• The one thing He commands us as His branches is to bear fruit. Let us live to bless others, to testify of the life and the love there is in Jesus. Let us in faith and obedience give our whole life to that which Jesus chose us for and appointed us to-fruit-bearing.

  Andy Murray

  Jesus, Giving, Branches

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.

  John Adams

  Passion, Men, Law

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.114

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• The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Christian, Jesus, People

  "Biblical Morality Part 2: Killing Non-virgin Brides and Rebellious Kids". Personal blog, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 26, 2012.

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• For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Law

  John Locke (1751). “Works”, p.207

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• When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.

  John Taylor

  Religious, Party, Believe

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• It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Men, Animal

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.955, Library of America

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• Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Sick, Praying

  Bill Johnson, Randy Clark (2011). “The Essential Guide to Healing”, p.51, Chosen Books

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• The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

  William Falconer

  Fate, Important, May

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  Arleigh Burke

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

  William Ellery Channing

  Giving, Delight, Infinite

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

  John Piper

  Self, Mind, Satisfaction

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• The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

  Jon Landau

  Greatness, Expression, Discipline

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• If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

  John Piper

  Twists, Tornadoes, Hours

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• If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

  William Law

  Love, Support, Soul

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

  James Allen

  Believe, Men, Long

  James Allen (2012). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

  Anne Bronte

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.257, Diversion Books

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• Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

  Brandi Carlile

  Meditation, Singing, Form

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• "Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

  Mark Hart

  Love One Another, Difficult

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• I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Scrutiny, Supervision

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Running, Exercise, Hands

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing is useful, but they want also, and mainly, to feel that it is right. Freedom is one of these principles

  Henry Wallich

  Strong, Men, Principles

  Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”

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