Quotes About Command

Accordingly, let us, too, learn to put aside all questions and simply to go in the name of the Lord and do whatever God has commanded, whether it is foolish, offensive, or dangerous. If God's command is connected with it, even a work that is disgraceful and shameful in the sight of reason is most beautiful and holy; for there is no greater and better adornment than the Word of God.

Therefore we are taught here that true vengeance is carried out, not by our passion but by God's command and on account of God. We are only the instruments of the avenging God, and we arrogate nothing of the vengeance to ourselves, as you see here.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...

Do what your heart - and your instincts - command and you will not be disappointed!

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

Cry havok and let slip the dogs of war!

Love cannot be commanded

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it

No one disobeyed his commands. He could silence the devil with a whisper.

Then he gestured with his pistol for her to

No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led," wrote John Kotter

Money: power at its most liquid.

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead.

Silence abides. Nobody talks. Nobody can talk. No man knows his own mind. Fear prises the body and soul apart as neatly as a scallop knife – pop! He is no longer in control of himself. Someone or something else commands him: the war itself. He runs in expectation of death – any second, any second now – and then his soul will hang around like so much chaff until a stiff breeze disperses it and he will return to the source.

Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

God does not command what cannot be done, but admonishes us to do what is in our power, and to pray for what is not.

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige," Syme said.

Te quiero, Donna —al ver que ella no contestaba, controló el estremecimiento de pánico y siguió hablando con su mejor voz de mando—. Y será mejor que tú también me quieras. Es una orden.