Commandments Quotes - Page 6

• The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Animal, Wings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Effort, Understanding, Covenant

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• Christmas is a time for remembering the Son of God and renewing our determination to take upon us His name. It is a time to reassess our lives and examine our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Let this be a time of remembrance, of gratitude, and a time of forgiveness. Let it be a time to ponder the Atonement of Jesus Christ and its meaning for each of us personally. Let it especially be a time of renewal and recommitment to live by the word of God and to obey His commandments. By doing this, we honor Him far more than we ever could with lights, gifts, or parties.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Jesus, Determination

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• Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is a universal gift, glorious for all cultural regions of this earth, irrespective of language, race, color, nationality, or socioeconomic circumstance. The powers of reason may be used to try to understand this gift, but those who feel its effects most deeply are those who are willing to accept its blessings, which come from a pure and clean life of following the path of true repentance and living the commandments of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Blessing, Race

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• If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.

  Heber J. Grant

  Eye, Men, Dust

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• The first great commandment was to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, might, mind and strength; and the second was like unto it, to love our neighbor as ourselves. And the best way in the world to show our love for our neighbor is to go forth and proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, of which He has given us an absolute knowledge concerning its divinity.

  Heber J. Grant

  Jesus, Heart, Mind

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• If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think.
  But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed.
  The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Degrees, Influence, Film

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• A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

  Rick Warren

  Commitment, Church, Grows

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this mortal part of our existence. May the joy of gospel service ever abide in our hearts as we go forward to fulfill our duties and responsibilities as servants in our Father in Heaven's kingdom.

  L. Tom Perry

  Father, Responsibility, Heart

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• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

  Learned Hand

  Justice, Political, Democracy

  "Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice" (1951)

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• A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

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• Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

  Richard Dawkins

  Good Life, Guides, Ten Commandments

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• His face was filled with broken commandments.

  John Masefield

  Sarcastic, Broken, Faces

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• We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

  James Madison

  Bible, God, Religious

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• 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Atheism, Hats

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• I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Family, Children

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• When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiration, Cutting, Law

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.55, Penguin

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• Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Long, People

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• The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

  Emily Post

  Lying, Dishonesty, Found

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• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Years, America

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Baptism, Church

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• Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Apology, Simple

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