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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those. ↗

— John Frame

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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. ↗

— Gary North

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