Commandments Quotes

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

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 Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.