Quotes of: Commanding Keyword

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

Norman Lamm

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Alice Miller

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Edwin Louis Cole

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheles...

A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Excerpt from my lecture Sunday at Soul-Esteem Center 10 Commandments - God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free will and felt later it necessary to write the 10 Commandants as a...

The Strength in Knowing

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of G...

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

The Commanding Self

…la actitud Sufi es: “Que la auténtica verdad, cualquiera que fuere, me sea revelada

The Commanding Self

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

Randall Terry

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

Winter's Heat

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

Roy Moore

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

Malcolm Bradbury

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Carol P. Christ

And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita.

To Command and Collar

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

The Commanding Self

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

The Commanding Self

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

The Commanding Self

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

Mike Jackson