Commandments Quotations

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

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

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

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

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

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

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

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

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

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

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

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

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.

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

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

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

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

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

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

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

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

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

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

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.

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

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

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

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

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

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