Command Quotes - Page 20

• God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

  Max Anders

  Law, Giving, Obedience

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• Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped." God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.

  Philip Yancey

  Running, Heart, Loving Life

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• The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Wicked, Moments

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• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hurt, Prayer, People

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• Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Perfect, Joy, Soul

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• Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Attitude, Hate

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• The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Doe, Spheres, Individual

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• Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Law, Justice

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.54, CUA Press

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• A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

  John Dewey

  Special, Acting, Principles

  John Dewey (2015). “Ethics: Top American Authors”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

  John C. Maxwell

  Kings, Giving, Helping

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.

  Jack Ma

  Night, Names, Doors

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• No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me since my first command. I work to understand the people, their views and needs, and how tasks are being carried out.That interaction might cause me to modify my guidance or the way I delegate. It also affords me an opportunity to learn what goals people have and how as their boss I can facilitate their future in ways that not only help them, but also help the ship or the organization.

  Michael Mullen

  Opportunity, Organization, Views

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• And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Reason, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

  Suzy Kassem

  Song, World, Shapes

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

  James Bovard

  Government, Liberty, Lists

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.101, Macmillan

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• As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

  John F. Kerry

  President, Lasts, Knows

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• Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, Moving, Insecure

  "This Is What 40 Looks Like" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2012.

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• The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

  Martin Buber

  Neighbor, Meaning Of Love, True Meaning

  Martin Buber (2013). “On Judaism”, p.212, Schocken

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• To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

  John of Damascus

  Queens, Heaven, Honor

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• I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

  Rick McCallum

  Jobs, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.

  Mick Garris

  Teacher, Jobs, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

  Saint Augustine

  Love Is, Roots, Speak

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• If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"

  Richard M. Weiner

  Dog, Friendly, Would Be

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• It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

  Roger Ebert

  Fate, Thinking, Soul

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

  Peter Senge

  Wise, Growing, Authority

  Debashis Chatterjee, Peter Senge (2012). “Leading Consciously”, p.12, Routledge

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