Commandments Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.