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What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.
— Lancelot Andrewes
All writers have their own pet commandments.
— Darin Strauss
The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.
— Colin S. Smith
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
— Teresa Of Avila
The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
— Harold B. Lee
As ancient Israel had removed the Ten Commandments from its national consciousness, so America did likewise, removing the Ten Commandments from
— Jonathan Cahn
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.
— Richard Dawkins
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
— Ann M. Dibb
He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot.
— James Goldman
Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
— Delbert L. Stapley
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
— Meister Eckhart
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— Anonymous
'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
— Leonard Bacon
The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.
— James Mikolajczyk
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
— H.L. Mencken
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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
— John Quincy Adams
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.
— David Josiah Brewer
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
— Spencer W. Kimball
With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.
— Dennis Prager
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
— Harold B. Lee
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
— Ronald Reagan
Don't forget the laws of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ...
— Adolf Hitler
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
— James Madison
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
— T.H. White
Keeping the commandments is a result of having love for God.
— Sunday Adelaja
The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.
— Colin S. Smith
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
— Randall Terry
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on.
— Steve Martin
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
— John Calvin
Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
— William Shakespeare
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
— Hector Hugh Munro
By being silent he can do more than those who chatter. For he is in tune with the commandments as a harp is with its strings.
— Cyril Charles Richardson
Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.
— Thomas Watson
Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith - faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.
— Carl B. Pratt
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
— Billy Wilder
Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.
— Sunday Adelaja
His face was filled with broken commandments.
— John Masefield
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
— James Russell Lowell
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
— Colin S. Smith
When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.
— Richard G. Scott
We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now,
— John Calvin
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[R]equests from the corporation were never really requests. They were commandments wearing their best Sunday clothes.
— Mira Grant
Our obedience to God's commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
— Ronald Reagan
Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.
— Gena Showalter
The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
— Thomas Reed
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
— Harold B. Lee
Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.
— Dallin H. Oaks
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
— Josh Billings
One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.
— Jessica Pallington West
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
— Willie Nelson
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
— Pat Riley
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create ...
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The more I begin to love the commandments of God in creation and word, the more present they will be for me in every hour.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.
— Saint Augustine
Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.
— Martha H. Tingey
Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself.
— Israel Zangwill
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
— G.K. Chesterton
The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of God versus the gods.
— Walter Brueggemann
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
— Courtney Love
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
— Malcolm Bradbury
My eleventh commandment is to make sure I follow the first ten.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
