Quotes About Commandments

Cecil B. DeMille observed of the principles contained in his monumental movie, The Ten Commandments, "It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

If God does have good reasons for his commandments, why don't we appeal to those reasons directly and skip the middleman?

Our obedience to God's commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

We were Methodists now and didn't worship our ancestors as gods. But the commandments that decreed the one true God also said to honor thy father and mother. So it was right, Mother said, to follow the old ways and esteem our predecessors who had paved the paths upon which we walked.

Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.

Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.

Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

If ye love me keep my commandments

the Christian god has nothing better to do than to make rules for us. He

Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

When a scribe asked Jesus in Mark 12:28 which of all God's commandments was paramount, He reached into the warm, beating heart of the law and raised these words above the rest: "This is the most important . . . Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength."11

Whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. 1 John 2:5

Keep the LORD'S commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good. Deuteronomy 10:13