Quotes about Commandment
Matthew 5:43-46 Love God. Love one another. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. That about covers it. In Christ's meticulous census, the community exempt from the love of Christians has a population of exactly zero.
- Beth Moore
You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9—10
- Beth Moore
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
- Ellen White
Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.
- St. Augustine
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
- St. Augustine
And only as we love God supremely is it possible to love our neighbor impartially.
- Ellen White
The Sabbath, especially, was given for the benefit of man and for the honor of God. --Story of Redemption, pg. 141
- Ellen White
Man is to represent Christ. He is to be long-suffering toward his fellow men, to be patient, forgiving, and full of Christlike love. He who is truly converted will manifest respect for his brethren; he will do as Christ has commanded. Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another".
- Ellen White
The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Hear O Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.
- Scot McKnight
The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
- NT Wright