Quotes about Commands
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade
The commands of the New Testament are directed to those who are justified and are new men in the Spirit. Nothing is taught or commanded there except what pertains solely to believers, who do everything spontaneously, not from necessity or contrary to their own will.
- Martin Luther
His commands are not competing demands that flow out of competing value systems. They are a single fabric of threads that, woven together, define what it means to live in a way that is good, right, beautiful, and pleasing to him.
- Paul David Tripp
Yahweh is worthy of worship To save is to "re-create" God's mountain God gives lots of commands Israelites rebel against Moses and God
- Peter Enns
he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
- Proverbs 4:4
For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
- Jeremiah 22:4
These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
- Colossians 2:22
and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
- Titus 1:14
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
- Jerry Bridges
Grace doesn't give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.
- Lysa TerKeurst
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
- Anne Hutchinson
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
- St. Thomas Aquinas