Commands Quotes

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'