Top 100 Quotes About Commands
#1. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
Noah Webster
#2. Every faithful parent must give their children guidance, direction, rules, and commands. What we are saying is that these things are not to be the primary theme of our teaching. The primary theme is to be Jesus Christ and the work he's already done.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#3. Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.
Paul Gerhardt
#4. The holy book in the longest continuous use - the Talmud - commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
J.D. Greear
#6. I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#7. The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
Davy Jones
#8. There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
Sun Tzu
#10. And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony De Mello
#12. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
Stanley Milgram
#13. He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
George Eliot
#14. Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
Muhammad Yunus
#15. We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.
Edward Hirsch
#16. The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept it. Why do you not accept this mercy in obedience to His command ... God offers you a pardon for all your sins.
John Wesley
#17. Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
#18. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.
Sun Tzu
#19. Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
#20. The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
Arnaud Desjardins
#21. For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
Alan Dershowitz
#22. In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
N.K. Jemisin
#23. He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#24. I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
John F. Kennedy
#25. 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
#26. Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.
R.C. Sproul
#27. When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
Joseph Brodsky
#28. Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don't get their way.:
Ash Gray
#29. The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.
Graham Nelson
#30. Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.
Rick Perlstein
#31. The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#32. But I'm still curious to know: can you move a mountain or not?' 'If God commands it, I will move it,' Tikhon pronounced with quiet restraint, again beginning to lower his eyes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it."
"God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong."
"Er. Yes.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
Robert Breault
#35. God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Martin Buber
#36. I want to act recklessly and have "that kiss" - the one that books are written about, love is found in, and virtue is lost with. "Decide, sweetheart," he commands. "A man only has so much restraint.
K. Bromberg
#37. The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Mark Twain
#38. Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.
Horace
#39. A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought ... but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#40. Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God's commands.
Jim George
#41. I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert Greene
#42. The one thing He commands us as His branches is to bear fruit. Let us live to bless others, to testify of the life and the love there is in Jesus. Let us in faith and obedience give our whole life to that which Jesus chose us for and appointed us to-fruit-bearing.
Andy Murray
#43. The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.
Chris Heimerdinger
#44. On December third I started following commands. my OT told me to do something with a ball, and I did it!
Amy Rankin
#45. We're now getting the first glimpses of the vastness of inner space. This internal, hidden, intimate cosmos commands its own goals, imperatives, and logic.
David Eagleman
#46. God gives us the grace to accomplish what He calls us to do. His commands are also His promise of victory.
Floyd McClung
#47. Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"
Dave Barry
#49. To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
John Bunyan
#50. Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers.
Aaron Allston
#51. 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
#52. I do not take commands from someone with no character or appreciative mindset.
Mohith Agadi
#53. In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
Anthony De Jasay
#54. Deep in my mind a thought did flash for a moment that one who commands must of necessity be wildly imperfect, boldly pragmatic, capable of compromises impossible for the truly wise and the truly good.
Anne Rice
#55. There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
Mark Shand
#56. When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
Jack Black
#57. There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
Garry Wills
#58. behavior that they understand God's commands and can transform abstract commandments into compassionate personal action. Until now I was neither a religious nor spiritual person.
Bernd Wollschlaeger
#59. Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.
Mark Twain
#60. The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
Heinrich Himmler
#61. Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.
George Hammond
#62. Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
Frederic Henry Hedge
#64. The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
Richard Bach
#66. Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
Tim Ferriss
#67. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
Mao Zedong
#68. My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses Mendelssohn
#69. Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
Martin Luther
#70. Deep within our souls we know that God exists and that He has given His law to us. We seek to suppress this knowledge in order to escape God's commands. But no matter how hard we try, we cannot silence this inner voice. It can be muffled but not destroyed.
R.C. Sproul
#72. An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.
Dallas Willard
#73. I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.
Philippa Gregory
#74. He wondered what commands the Regent would have given to Govart. Do as you please and don't listen to my nephew. He thought, probably something exactly like that.
C.S. Pacat
#75. It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
Robert Thier
#77. I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 ... The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
William Thomas Walsh
#78. The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
#79. The New Testament never tells us to build a place for people to come to us; instead, the New Testament commands us to give our lives going to people.
David Platt
#80. I obey my own commands about as often as others do.
Mason Cooley
#81. The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear.
Jefferson Bethke
#82. He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra
#83. Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.
Dave Barry
#84. What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his Prophet.
Mohammed Bouyeri
#86. I wondered if it was actually true or if he was simply obeying my commands to confess, but then I realized that I'm the only one who lies in this relationship.
Mackenzie Snow
#87. We shouldn't refer to the Spirit as "it"; instead we should always refer to the Spirit as "He" - because the Holy Spirit is a Person. He speaks to us, He commands us, He intercedes for us, He hears us, He guides us.
Billy Graham
#88. There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.
David Baldacci
#89. He calls us to run hard after Him, His commands, and His glory. The decision to be in God's will is not the choice between Memphis or Fargo or engineering or art; it's the daily decision we face to seek God's kingdom or ours, submit to His lordship or not, live according to His rules or our own.
Kevin DeYoung
#91. My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
Jared Leto
#92. Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.
John Wooden
#93. Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#94. Indeed Allah commands you to render the trusts to whom they are due and when you judge between people to judge with justice'.
Christopher Davidson
#95. A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole
#96. If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
Stonewall Jackson
#97. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD'S commands and obey them. Numbers 15:39
Beth Moore
#98. Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
George Meredith
#99. Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#100. It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.
Henry B. Eyring
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