Commandments Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.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