Commandments Quotes - Page 20

• Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Men, Church

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• Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and priesthood covenants provide a test of faith, obedience, and love for God and Jesus Christ, but even more importantly, they offer an opportunity to experience love from God and to receive a full measure of joy both in this life and in the life to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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• Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Doe, Morality

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• We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  Robert D. Hales

  Father, Water, Baptism

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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• America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

  Anatole France

  Law, America, Thanks

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• The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Ideas, Religion, Ten Commandments

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• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  Karl Lehmann

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

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• I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Disappointment, Moving

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• He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced to continue the struggle by being rigorously reminded of God's judgment. In this way he will not only be moved by love to desire what is divine, but will be moved by fear to avoid what is evil. For 'I will sing to Thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment' (Ps. 101:1 LXX). He will sing to God charmed by love, and steeled by fear he will have strength for the song.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Song, Kindness

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• It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

  Mark Nepo

  Men, Medicine, Names

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• As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Views

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• The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

  Tom Lantos

  Giving, House, Bills

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• But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Hate, Mind, Firsts

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• Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

  Linus Pauling

  War, Mean, Leader

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

  Martin Luther

  Should, Teach, Our Family

  Martin Luther (1961). “Martin Luther, selections from his writings”, Anchor Books

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• God is calling forth a generation that is passionate for His presence. A generation that knows who they are and Whose they are. He is calling forth sons and daughters who don't find their identity in revival but in Christ. For the Great Commission must flow out of the Great Commandment. Our destinies must flow out of our identities as beloved children of God who know their worth, value and honor before the Father...we have nothing to prove and nothing to lose...It is the time for change. IT is time for revival and reformation in this generation.

  Jaeson Ma

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

  Theodore Bikel

  Certain, Compassionate, Obligation

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• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

  George Washington

  Country, Land, Promise

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

  Cal Thomas

  Believe, Atheism, Might

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• The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.

  Bob Sorge

  Firsts, Spirit, Holy

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• I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

  Carl Reiner

  Atheist, Hurt, Men

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• One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

  Carl Sagan

  Argument, Authority, Primates

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

  Pope Francis

  Grandparent, Aging, Fourth

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