Top 1200 Ten Commandments Quotes & Sayings

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

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

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

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

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

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.

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

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.

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.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

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

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

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

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.