Quotes about Commandment

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

No one can say yes to God's ways who has said no to his promises and commandments. Acceptance of the will of God comes in the daily submission under his Word.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:But the seventh day… thou shalt not do any work.

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.

Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

But let not God speak with us, lest we die.