#commandment

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#book #commandments #discussed #ethics #goddess

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bill #commandments #gave #gives #house

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#cecil #character #chief #commandments #daily

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #commandment #honor #i #i see

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#business #comes #commandments #deity #god

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #comedy #commandments #extent #hilarious

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven. ↗

— Norris Cotton

#cut #down #introduced #mood #seven

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#down #god #handed #improved #law

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #wilderness #love

If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible. (23) ↗

— Sam Harris

#morality #religion #imagination