#commandment

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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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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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

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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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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

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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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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

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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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