Commandments Quotes

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].

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

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

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

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

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."

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.'

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments.

Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

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

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

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

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.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.

As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

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.

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.