Quotes About First Commandment

#1. The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.

Aron Ra

#2. And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Phyllis Schlafly

#3. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Anonymous

#4. The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.

Bob Sorge

#5. Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

John Piper

#6. Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

James Hogg

#7. With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. As human beings, our first commandment is:
Something needs to happen

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. The first commandment of dog behavior: Thou shalt not hump. Thou shalt especially not hump in public. Thou shalt not hump thy neighbor's wife, thy neighbor's leg, or thy neighbor's Jack Russell Terrier. - Belle, Dog Only Knows

Terry Kaye

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E.L. James

#11. Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Sam Storms

#14. Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

#15. Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

Thomas Huxley

#16. Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Charles William Eliot

#17. The world will not change until we do

Jim Wallis

#18. Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#19. [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

George Washington

#20. The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

#21. But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.

Sheldon Vanauken

#22. There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

Liz Curtis Higgs

#23. People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

Donald Miller

#24. The lantern's dim light hardly cut through the darkness.

I.D. Blind

#25. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

John Calvin

#26. My eleventh commandment is to make sure I follow the first ten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

F. Sionil Jose

#28. 37Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Anonymous

#29. I have no money, but my wallet is overflowing with love.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first two commandments. Sex is god, and I worship by having sexual sin.

Mark Driscoll

#31. NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

Vladimir Putin

#32. This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

Earl Wilson

#33. 36"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'a 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Anonymous

#34. I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

Brian H. Hook

#35. Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night.

Rosabetty Munoz

#36. There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

Scott McCallum

#37. [Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.

Martin Luther

#38. It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men, can fulfill that first and great commandment of the Master, 'You shall love God with all your heart and with all your strength' (Mt. 22:37).

Gregory Of Nyssa