#commandment

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

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Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Thomas Reed

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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed? ↗

— Anne Lamott

#jesus #faith

The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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