Top 217 Commandment Quotes & Sayings

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God and died in consequence of the violation of the commandment, so by obedience to the commandment it is again united to God and is quickened. This is why the Lord says in the Gospels, 'The words I speak to you are spirit and life' (Jn. 6:63).

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

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.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

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.

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

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

I firmly believe that you are supposed to love everybody. That is God's one boldest commandment.

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

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

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.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

Jesus's first commandment was to love one another.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.