Commandments Quotes
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I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
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Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.
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Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
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The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
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I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
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The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.
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The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.
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The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
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No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?
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As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."
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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
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The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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As you keep the commandments and pray in faith to see the Lord's hand in your life, I promise you that He will open your spiritual eyes even wider, and you will see more clearly that you are not alone.
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Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!
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A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.
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True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
