Quotes about Commandments

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

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

It may be said, "Surely these passages cannot be taken literally, for how then would the people of God be able to survive in the world?" The state of mind of John 7:17 will cause such objections to vanish: If anyone desires to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God or whether I speak of myself. I believe that whoever is willing to act out these commandments of the Lord literally, will be led with me to see that taking them literally is the will of God.

Thus, for Aquinas, the New Law goes beyond the Sermon on the Mount and the other teachings of Jesus. It is nothing less than divine grace—divine life and power. Grace is the New Law that enables us to keep the commandments in a way that we as children of Adam couldn't on our own.

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.

We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.