Quotes About The Second Commandment

#1. The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Sam Harris

#2. The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.

Jim Warner

#3. Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary

Timothy Leary

#4. 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

#5. By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

Denis Waitley

#6. If the second-greatest commandment is to love our fellow man, where is that commandment in this? Dear God, where is the love in this?

Nicole Hardy

#7. 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

#8. But I have five children of my own here, and I love them all dearly.

Nellie C. Lind

#9. I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Chelsea Clinton

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. [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

#13. 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

#14. Men and women are created by God.
Men need women, women need men.
Appreciate masculine and feminine qualities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

Jenifer Mohammed