The Ten Commandments Quotes

The Ten 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 Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

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.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

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

In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

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

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

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.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

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.