Command Quotes - Page 9

• God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

  Mark Batterson

  Wish, Bottles, Genies

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Oct 30, 2012

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• We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do.

  Griffith John

  Christian, Spiritual, Baptism

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• When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Men, Forgiving, Lord

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• I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Thinking, Brilliant

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

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• A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Attention, Chance

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• Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Husband, Law, Doe

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• We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

  William Shakespeare

  Insanity, Mind, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works”, p.157

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• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

  Aristotle

  Style, Metaphor

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• Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

  John Updike

  Heart, Guidance, Guides

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• This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

  Juvenal

  Wish, Reason, Pleasure

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• The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Giving, Violence

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.241

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• Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, Please, Can Do

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1662.

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• The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

  Charles Churchill

  Woods, Flood, Oaks

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

  George Farquhar

  Men, Feet, Promise

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• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.

  Mark Rothko

  Glasses, Views, Looks

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• I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kids, Ideas, Energy

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• A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wisdom, Government, People

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes”, p.516

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• I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school. I was coming into a situation I didn't really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character's kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops. What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended. The SG-1 franchise has been so successful for the network, that they always want to keep it open, an option to do it again in some way, whether that's a movie or a series, or whatever.

  Beau Bridges

  Couple, School, Character

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• You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people - CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.

  Brit Hume

  Cnn, Long, People

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Atheism, World, Way

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• But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Jesus, Light, Atheism

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• My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Real, Cancer, Views

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• The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate with the no [number] of 'Wives Childin & Friends' that we inheret here and that our great mission to earth was to Organize a Neculi of Heaven to take with us. To the increase of which there would be no end.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Taught Us, Numbers, Wife

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• Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

  Robert Jeffress

  Children, Responsibility, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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