Divine Commands Quotes

#1. Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Immanuel Kant

#2. threats and promises often succeed in creating stable human hierarchies and mass-cooperation networks, as long as people believe that they reflect the inevitable laws of nature or the divine commands of God, rather than just human whims.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

Gardiner Spring

#4. The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Georgia Harkness

#5. People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine

Jamie Delano

#6. He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate."
"With chair-throwing."
"Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

Kelley Armstrong

#7. Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

William Ellery Channing

#8. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

#9. Divine power does not travel in words but in a personal relationship (John 5:19; 15:5). We cannot simply go around saying the right words and shouting the right commands and expect results. Jesus had to be led by his Father, and so do we.

Zondervan Publishing

#10. Show some fucking adaptability!

Neal Stephenson

#11. A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing

George Steinbrenner

#13. Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires.

Anjem Choudary

#14. You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

Michala Petri

#15. The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

Jerry A. Coyne

#16. In the ten houses the police had scouted, I hadn't sensed anything more dangerous than a pot that prevents over-boiling.

N.E. Conneely

#17. Maybe you should get rid of me," I whisper onto his lips.
"Never," he says, kissing me once softly. "You're mine for as long as you breathe.

J.A. Redmerski

#18. They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

John O'Hara

#19. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Jonathan Sacks