#commandment

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

#comes #commandments #concept #french #french revolution

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#bible #change #close #commandments #convictions

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

— Gary North

#dominion #forth #set #strategy #ten

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

— Malcolm Bradbury

#commandments #god #had #liberal #suggestions

We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments, promises and penalties are much more so. The Bible is not just a guideline. It is the authoritative Word of God. Disobeying it has consequences. Obeying it has rewards. Yet we fudge. We compromise. We rationalize. We trade away our spiritual integrity for man’s approval and as we do, we gradually erode our ability to distinguish right from wrong, to see our own failings, and to turn back in repentance to God. We simply have no idea how this cavalier attitude towards God’s Word taints our witness and hinders the kingdom of God. ↗

— Craig Olson

#commandments #craig-olson #god #scripture #attitude

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were. ↗

— Robert Walser

#commandment #doorway #eyes #you #beauty

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed? ↗

— Anne Lamott

#jesus #faith

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican. ↗

— Renee Ellmers

#believe #commandment #i #i believe #i believe in

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said. ↗

— Erich Segal

#humour #love