Commandments Quotes

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.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

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.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

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

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.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

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.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

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.

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.

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.