Quotes About Decree

Rome has spoken; the case is closed.

Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend?

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

They stamp on any change: they close the way and keep the type fixed because they've got the arrogance to think themselves perfect. As they reckon it, they. and only they, are in the true image; very well, then it follows that if the image is true, they themselves must be God: and, being God, they reckon themselves entitled to decree, "thus far, and no farther." That is their great sin: they try to strangle the life out of Life.

Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power."--Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.

Have we," he wondered, "conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?

The authorities of Tal Verrar, in a magnanimous gesture of hospitality, have decreed that no foreigner upon the Golden Steps may be pressed into slavery. As a result, there are few places west of Camorr where it is safer for strangers to drink their brains out and fall asleep in the gutters and gardens.

His is the eternal decree, his is the love that drew salvation's plan, his is the initiative in sending the Son, his is the power that raised Christ from the dead and put all things under his feet. "To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!" (Eph. 3:21 NIV).

The decree against parasitism was originally formulated for Gypsies, then broad-mindedly expanded to include dissidents and all sorts of profiteers

If ka will say so, let it be so.

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed

It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual. Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.

According to the Bolshevik decree, the repressions were "of a temporary nature and will be removed by a special degree just as soon as normal conditions are reestablished," but, of course, "normal" conditions never returned.63

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

As we put our faith in God and make Him our only Source, only then will our expectations not end in frustrations. David writes, "for my expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5). I decree your days of frustrations are over and all His blessings are now upon you and overtaking you!

C'est pourtant fort bête d'être joyeux, à date fixe, par décret du gouvernement.

Early one morning, before the sun had fully risen over the horizon, he sent two messengers on horseback, each to deliver the royal decree to Laird Armstrong and Laird Montgomery. He only hoped to hell that they didn't kill each other at the wedding.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Nuestra revolución partió de una premisa y es que la vida humana no es algo extraordinario y santificarla es cosa de las religiones, y aquí hemos decretado la muerte de Dios.

Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.

Charmed with his discourse, delighted to learn that it is so easy to promote, by legislating, the prosperity of a people, the law-makers voted the restriction. "Talk of labor and economy," they said, "what is the use of these painful means of increasing the national wealth, when all that is wanted for this object is a decree?

What is a law?" said he to himself. "It is a measure to which, when once it is decreed, be it good or bad, everybody is bound to conform. For the execution of the same a public force is organized, and to constitute the said public force, men and money are drawn from the whole nation.

Without his armor, Tyr Tejohn Treygar thought he must have looked like a man disgraced. It was ridiculous, of course; by Festival custom and royal decree, everyone went without armor today, even the guards at the gates.