Commandments Quotes - Page 14

• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

  Solomon

  Men, Evil, Secret

  "Ecclesiastes". Book by Solomon , 12:13-14, c. 450-200 BCE.

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• God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant.

  Ellen G. White

  People, Church, Earth

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

  Robert Breault

  Religion, Swirls, Spun

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• I testify to you that our promised blessings are beyond measure. Though the storm clouds may gather, though the rains may pour down upon us, our knowledge of the gospel and our love of our Heavenly Father and Savior will comfort and sustain us and bring joy to our hearts as we walk uprightly and keep the commandments. There will be nothing in this world that can defeat us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Rain, Heart

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• 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.)

  Carl Sagan

  Hierarchy, Dominance, Argument

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

  Sam Levenson

  Wise, Religion, Lord

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rehearsal, Eternity, Burden

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• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Two, Pedestal

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• T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

  Ronald Reagan

  Republican, Speak, Politician

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Needs, Spirit

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• Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Successful, Self, Maxims

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• 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.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Goal, Impressive, Ten Commandments

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• Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

  Josh Billings

  Laughter, Next, Ten Commandments

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• The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Simple, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

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• The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religion, Should, Ten Commandments

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• All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

  Richard Whately

  Gambling, Desire, Profit

  Richard Whately, Launcelot John George Downing DOWDALL (1848). “Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised”, p.364

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

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Eye, Order

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 8), 1895.

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• This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Father, Accountability, Heaven

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• Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

  Joy Davidman

  Dream, Twists, Want

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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.

  Richard G. Scott

  Answers, Obedience, Grows

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• Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Unique, Tyrants

  "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Self, Differences, Use

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

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• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Powerful, Challenges, Identity

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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