Commandments Quotes - Page 3

• If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

  Art Buchwald

  Eight, President, Rosemary

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• The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

  Maurice Strong

  Real, Goal, Facts

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• Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Enduring To The End, Discipline, Sunrise

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient.  They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Expression, Agency

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dedication, Able, Temples

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• As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

  James Keller

  Time, Women, Chinese

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• God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Myles Munroe

  Love Is, Self, Knowing

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.153, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

  Norman Lamm

  Biblical, Study, Chiefs

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• We cannot have faith without belief, but we can believe without having faith. Belief is the foundation of faith. Faith is trusting in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The scriptures contain many assurances of salvation to those who exercise faith and obey the commandments... Faith is the motivating force that impels action.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Jesus, Believe, Exercise

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• The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more.
  The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.

  Donella Meadows

  Sunshine, Years, People

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• But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

  Roger Williams

  Religious, Order, Law

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• Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Character

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• Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Love, Wise, Father

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• Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.

  Fred Small

  Children, Issues, Justice

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• There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Prayer, Faithful, Missionary

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• Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Eight, Trying

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• Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith—faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.

  Carl B. Pratt

  Blessing, Promise, Matter

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• Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Seeking

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• Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

  Takashi Nagai

  Suicide, War, Mean

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Golden, Reason, Request

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore, I implore us, keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ, eat the bread of life, drink the living water, and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior, our Master, of whom I bear my humble witness.

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Life, Humble, Water

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• Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Each Day, Fruit

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• How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.

  Robert D. Hales

  Life, Father, Blessing

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