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Quotes About Command

The Broken Vessel Have you ever been scorched by the hot words of Jesus? Has He ever spoken something so deep into your heart that you were cut to the very core of your being? I think this is exactly what happened to John in the passage below. I believe he was pierced by God in his fleshly strength, never to recover. When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command
~ James W. Goll
Listen!--- Listen! All you sons of Pharaoh. Who do you think can hold God's people when the Lord God himself has said, Let my people go?
~ James Weldon Johnson
Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.
~ Jan Guillou
if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?
~ Jan Hus
Further, it is evident that if pope or other superior command the priest not to preach, who is disposed to do so (as has been said), or the rich not to give alms, the inferior ought not to obey. Wherefore, depending on this command of the Lord, I have not obeyed Pope Alexander's command in regard to not preaching and hence will humbly bear excommunication,1 confident that I will secure to myself the benediction of my God.
~ Jan Hus
Control. Master.
~ Jane Henry
Pakhan gives an order, we obey. He's our leader. The father of our group. A man who rules with an iron fist but pledges loyalty to the men beneath him. In turn, we swear our allegiance to him.
~ Jane Henry
Prikhodite seychas," he orders, come now,
~ Jane Henry
Taste my lash.
~ Jane Henry
Toddlers often resist a command to "go to the car" but respond cheerfully to a request like "I need your help. Will you carry the keys to the car for me?
~ Jane Nelsen
Provide Opportunities to Help Toddlers often resist a command to "go to the car" but respond cheerfully to a request like "I need your help. Will you carry the keys to the car for me?" Activities that might easily have become power struggles and battles can become opportunities for laughter and closeness if you use your instincts and creativity.
~ Jane Nelsen
Stop staring and call your brother', Dane snaps over his shoulder as he heads toward the stairs.
~ Jane Porter
The soldiers repeated this at the second and then the third Confederate
~ Janet Benge
Between gasping breaths, she said earnestly, "I could... almost hear the captain give the command: 'Eyebrows on stun, Mr. Spock...
~ Janet Kagan
controlled the lives of two hundred
~ Janet Wallach
In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
~ Janis Karpinski
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1 200 1 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
~ Janis Karpinski
They're controlling.
~ Douglas Stone
Bowen! she cried. Your knife!
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
~ Edmund Burke
Yet New York is always the chef, never the diner. Being
~ Edmund White
Attila, my lord, and thy lord, commands thee to provide a palace for his immediate reception.
~ Edward Gibbon
Edward Porter Alexander
~ aggressiveness
When you look at it closely, drunkenness is a lordship problem. Who is your master, God or your desires? Do you desire God above all else, or do you desire something in creation more than you desire the Creator? At root, drunkards are worshipping another god—alcohol. Drunkenness violates the command "You shall have no other gods before me.
~ Edward T. Welch