The Ten Commandments Quotes

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

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

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'.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

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.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

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.'

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

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

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

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."

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

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.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

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.

Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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.

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.

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 use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

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

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

The only good understanding is to obey the God's commandment.

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.