Commandments Quotes - Page 17

• The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

  Alice Miller

  Truth, Parent, Essentials

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.61, Macmillan

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

  James Madison

  4th Of July, Heart, Ability

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• We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Blessing, Names, People

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• There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Ideas, Justice

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• Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Essence, Two, Catholic

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• Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

  Richard L. Evans

  Honesty, Real, Sacrifice

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• Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Blessing, Flames, Sea

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• Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.

  Robert D. Hales

  Kind, Easier, Kinds Of Friends

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• Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord's ways. And always make sure that you're making it easier to live God's commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends.

  Robert D. Hales

  Your Side, Way, Sides

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• The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Law, Giving, Needs

  Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.22

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• If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

  Richard G. Scott

  Cancer, Heal Itself, Medicine

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• Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Mean, Sacrifice

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• When we strive to keep the commandments of God, repenting of our sins and promising our best efforts to follow the Savior, we begin to grow in confidence that through the Atonement everything will be all right.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Best Effort, Sin, Atonement

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• Worthy partakers of the sacrament are in harmony with the Lord and put themselves under covenant with Him to always remember His sacrifice for the sins of the world, to take upon them the name of Christ, and to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. The Savior covenants that we who do so shall have His Spirit to be with us and that, if faithful to the end, we may inherit eternal life.

  David B. Haight

  Sacrifice, Names, Faithful

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• It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Firsts, Belief, First Amendment

  McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844, 2005.

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• Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

  Jon Stewart

  Hands, Burgers, Crime

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• The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, America, What If

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• Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

  Gilbert Parker

  Men, Thinking, Should Have

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Running

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• 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?

  Ronald Reagan

  Politics, Might, Golden

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Suggestions, Suggestion Boxes

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• 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.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Foundation, Morality

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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• Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

  Arthur Smith

  Tragedy, May, Comedy

  "And the lion shall lie down with the lame" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Strong, Government, May

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