Quotes about Command

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...

The White House, realized former naval officer Steve Bannon after a few weeks, was really a military base, a government-issue office with a mansion's façade and a few ceremonial rooms sitting on top of a secure installation under military command.

Ironically, while modern-day Islam rejects the Gospel accounts as corrupt, the Koran itself commands Muslims to read the Injeel—that is, the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

God will not give you a dream unless He knows you have the talents, abilities, and personality to complete it. His commands reveal the potential He gave you before you were born.

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

The closest echoes to this double command are found in 1 Maccabees 2.68. Mattathias is telling his sons, especially Judas, to get ready for revolution. 'Pay back to the gentiles what is due to them,' he says, 'and keep the law's commands.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

He comes where He commands us to leave.

We don't consciously and deliberately disobey God—we simply don't listen to Him. God has given His commands to us, but we pay no attention to them—not because of willful disobedience, but because we do not truly love and respect Him.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”