Commands Quotes

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.