Commandments Quotes

• The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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• You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Practice, Suffering

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• It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

  Saint Augustine

  Humble, Grace, Proud

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Ems, May

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Wish, Heal

  "The Cost of Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Preface), as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 1937.

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• If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

  R. A. Torrey

  Heart, Soul, Might

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• Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Genuine Love, Obedience

  Twitter post from Dec 6, 2017

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• What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Wrath, Justice Of God

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

  Adrian Rogers

  Running, Song, Mean

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Soul, Deeds

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• Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Temptation, Impossible

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.1218, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Promise

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

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• Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the preaching and fulfillment of His commandments, and through a readiness to confess one's faith in Him. In those circles where such a confession is made, it is a loud sermon for all to hear.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Humility, Circles

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• 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.

  John Stott

  Greatness, Worship, Speak

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

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mood, Ten Commandments, Ifs

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• The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

  Harold B. Lee

  Important, Today, Difficulty

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• One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Deception, Limits, Satan

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Hate, Giving, Joy

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• The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

  William Wilberforce

  Neglect, Force, Equal

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8).

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Eye, Light

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• Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Men, Law, Moses

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• We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

  John Calvin

  Promise, Rely, Obeying

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• If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Religion, Thousand

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• If ye love me, keep my commandments." This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Mean, Essence

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