Command Quotes - Page 19

• But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Issues, Form

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• I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.

  Francis of Assisi

  Mother, Brother, Mean

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• I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Doubt, Desire

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• Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Law, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.437, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.

  David S. Baxter

  Jesus, Father, Demand

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• Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Important, Tragedy

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• Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

  Paul Tillich

  Command Not, Justice, Principles

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• I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

  George MacDonald

  Mind, Speech, Fit

  George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.13, Booklassic

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• Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

  Teresa of Avila

  One Thing, Conscience

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• When you're in command, command.

  Chester W. Nimitz

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• We need to pray for our nation like never before, and then put legs to our prayers and preach the gospel to a sin-loving and Hell-bound world. To pray for America and at the same time ignore that command to preach the gospel to every creature, is nothing but empty hypocrisy. It is to honor God with our lips and have cold hearts that are far from Him. May He give us a love that moves us from the pews into the streets, and from our homes into our universities. God save us from the cozy comfort of lukewarm contemporary Christianity.

  Ray Comfort

  Prayer, Moving, Home

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Sep 24, 2013

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• The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Character, Men, Expression

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• Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

  Dave Mustaine

  Sheep, Belief, Asks

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• Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

  Dave Mustaine

  Brother, Sea, Land

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• No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Gorbachev Blasts American 'Imperialism'". News conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2007.

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• The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

  Josh Hunt

  People, Joy, Church

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• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Reality, Concentration Of Wealth, Perception

  "The 'Uncredible' Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. October 10, 201.

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• [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, Numbers, Europe

  Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857). “The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.252

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• The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

  David Limbaugh

  Acceptance, Sky, Pie

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• What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

  Ami McKay

  Girl, Suffering, Attention

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• The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Data, Age

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• In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Believe, Communication

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• Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Law, Humanity

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• Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Faithful, Obedience

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