Commandments Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Sarah Palin

  Silly, Law, Conservative

  "Sarah Palin on National Day of Prayer Controversy". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2010.

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• We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog, or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. They are divine counsel, based on eternal truths.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Ideas, Long, Boards

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• I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Disappointment, Moving

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• We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.

  Eric Butterworth

  Religious, Communication, Names

  Eric Butterworth (2012). “Breaking the Ten Commandments: Discover the Deeper Meaning”, p.10, BookBaby

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• 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.

  Karl Lehmann

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Doe, Morality

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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

  Anatole France

  Law, America, Thanks

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

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Ideas, Religion, Ten Commandments

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• Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Believe, People

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• I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

  Theodore Bikel

  Certain, Compassionate, Obligation

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• It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

  Mark Nepo

  Men, Medicine, Names

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• God hears and fulfills the prayer of a man who fulfills His commandments. "Hear God in His commandments," says St. John Chrysostom, "So that He might hear you in your prayers." A man who keeps the commandments of God is always wise, patient, and sincere in his prayers. Mystery of prayer consists in the keeping of God's commandments.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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

  Glen Duncan

  There Is No God

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.341, Vintage

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• God abides in each commandment by His gracious power. "God is hidden in His commandments", says St. Mark the Ascetic. God helps everyone who strives to keep His commandments. That God abides in us we know by the Spirit, which He has given us. This means that a Christian is never alone, but that he lives and works together with the Thrice-Holy God.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• 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.'

  Jay Leno

  School, Interesting, Conservative

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• The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, People, Needs

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• 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?

  Randall Terry

  Children, Long, Abandonment

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• 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?"

  Cal Thomas

  Believe, Atheism, Might

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• The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.

  Bob Sorge

  Firsts, Spirit, Holy

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• I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

  Carl Reiner

  Atheist, Hurt, Men

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

  Carl Sagan

  Argument, Authority, Primates

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

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• To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Self, Examination, Covenant

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• We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

  Pope Francis

  Grandparent, Aging, Fourth

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