Commandments Quotes
Commandments Quote of the day
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
If ye love me, keep my commandments." This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him.
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.
God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.
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.
Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.
I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.
War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.
The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.
Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
