Quotes About Decree

A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.

Once the monarchy was abolished, a decree was passed that there would be no more kings in Rome.

And therefore I ordered him to be instantly hanged.

St. Gregory the Great says: "Men ought by prayer to dispose themselves to receive what Almighty God from eternity has decided to give them."1096

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

A decree prohibiting the separation of Romani families through the sale of slaves was adopted in Wallachia in 1850. The ownership of private slaves finally became illegal in Moldavia in 1855 and in Wallachia in 1856.

So Rhun had arrived at the last frontier of belief, and fallen, or emerged, or soared into the region where the soul realises that pain is of no account, that to be within the secret of God is more than well being, and past the power of the tongue to utter. To embrace the decree of pain is to translate it, to shed it like a rain of blessing on others who have not yet understood.

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other… - I'll decide what's a sin.