Commandments Quotes
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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.
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The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
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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.
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We should remember the wise adage that goals or commandments, in this case are stars to guide us and not sticks with which to beat ourselves.
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Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
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When we come to God’s great commandments to love Him and those around us by covenant, we do so not as stranger or guest but as His child at home.
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I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.
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Exhort your household to learn the Ten Commandments word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
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Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
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I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
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There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
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The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
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We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.
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There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.
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He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.
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I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.
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In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."
