Quotes About Commandment

Two cheder students were discussing how hard and tiring their studies had become, and impulsively one blurted: "Let's run away!" "Run away? … Our fathers would catch up with us and give us a sound thrashing." "So we'll hit them back!" "What? Hit your father?! You must be mad. Have you forgotten the Commandment—always to honor your father and mother?" "Mmh…. So you hit my father and I'll hit yours.

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

We must not fail to give our full attention to the spreading of the Good News and to prayer. But we must also care for those who are in need. That, too, is God's commandment to us. We must be careful not to neglect that task. "I have spent the afternoon in prayer, as have other apostles, and now we are ready to act. We would like you to select seven men—men who are full of the Spirit and wisdom—and we will turn this responsibility over to them.

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it...

Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.

O Amor é a regra que resume todas as outras regras. O Amor é o mandamento que justifica todos os outros mandamentos.

Feelings are up and down, they have peaks and troughs. Often, feelings generated by other causes get tangled up with a decision and color one's vision. Nothing short of commandment living (often in spite of feelings) can keep life stable. The peaks and troughs grow larger as they are allowed to become the life motivating force;7 however, on the other hand, they tend to flatten out as life becomes commandment oriented.

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Except for the three grave sins of murder, incest and idolatry, it was axiomatic in Halakhah that every commandment of the Torah might be violated to save a human life. But the rabbi also knew the mitzvah that commanded a Jew to be unafraid of any danger in the proclamation of his true faith. "'Let

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

It is much easier to fail to love your parents than to fail to love your children. That is why there is a commandment that commands love and respect to parents, but not to children. In an age of abortion, there ought to be an eleventh commandment against neglecting, harming, abusing, or even murdering your own children.

The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.

our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.

T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).

If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God it will be well," Samuel affirms. "But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king" (1 Samuel 12:14

When you are with a fellow man, say to yourself, "I am going to fulfill the commandment of 'love your neighbor as yourself' with this very person now." For the Baal Shem Tov taught that love your neighbor meant that you are to love the person you are with at the moment.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours." —Sigmund Freud

Every service of God, established and chosen by people to merit justification and grace, without God's commandment, is wicked

I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

It seems somewhat illogical to say, You have violated God's commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' so therefore I will kill you.