Commandments Quotes

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

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

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

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.

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

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

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.