Commandments Quotes - Page 19

• Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

  Richard L. Evans

  Should, Written

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• Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Answers, Sincere

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• God hears and fulfills the prayer of a man who fulfills His commandments. "Hear God in His commandments," says St. John Chrysostom, "So that He might hear you in your prayers." A man who keeps the commandments of God is always wise, patient, and sincere in his prayers. Mystery of prayer consists in the keeping of God's commandments.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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• Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Godly, Saws, Surrender

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• O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God but He (cf. Dt. 4:35). To Him no one is equal, nor can become equal (cf. Is. 40:18). He is Ruler of all things, the Judge of all, the King of all, the Maker of light and the Lord of life. He is the Light that is ineffable, inaccessible (cf. I Tim. 6:16), and He is the Only One. By His appearing He causes all His enemies to vanish before His face (cf. Ps. 68:2 f.), as well as those who do not perform His commandments, just as the sun when it rises drives away the darkness of night.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Kings, Believe

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• I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale.

  John Powell

  Religious, Brother, Winning

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• In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

  Richard L. Evans

  Answers, Should

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Lasts, Strategy, Negotiation

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books

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• I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

  Dave Brubeck

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Kids

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• Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Writing, Men, Arms

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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• If we are practicing our faith and seeking the companionship of the Holy Spirit, his presence can be felt in our hearts and in our homes. A family having daily family prayers and seeking to keep the commandments of God and honor his name and speak lovingly to one another will have a spiritual feeling in their home that will be discernible to all who enter it.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• ... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Father, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.312, Paulist Press

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• Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

  Israel Shenker

  Humble, Humility, Accepting God

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.

  Eric Butterworth

  Religious, Communication, Names

  Eric Butterworth (2012). “Breaking the Ten Commandments: Discover the Deeper Meaning”, p.10, BookBaby

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• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  Donny Osmond

  Mean, Important, Deities

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• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Community, Foundation, Earth

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• Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Money, Selfish

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Morning, Believe

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• There is no God and that's His only commandment.

  Glen Duncan

  There Is No God

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.341, Vintage

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• The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Needs, Should

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• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

  Israel Shenker

  Bible, Fate, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

  Whitley Strieber

  Real, Use, Fundamentals

  "Whitley Strieber,‘Communion’ Author, Describes Bizarre Encounter With Mystery Man" by Lee Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 07, 2011.

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• If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Believe, People

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