Commandments Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

  Meister Eckhart

  Promise, Rewards

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• On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.

  Sam Keen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• 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.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Onward And Upward, Enemy

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Gentleman, Difficulty

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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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• I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Believe, Heart, Commitment

  "Choose Wisely". Quentin L. Cook’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Possession, Following

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

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Silly, Moses, Said

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• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

  Ouida

  Hero, Passion, Men

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• Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

  John Calvin

  Two, Phantoms, Firsts

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

  David R. Brower

  Trying, Mountain, Population

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

  Harold B. Lee

  Giving, Important, World

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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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• Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

  Donella Meadows

  Delay, Information

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• There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treachero us mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Spiritual, Father, Law

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

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Endless Love, Obedience

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