A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Anne Hutchinson
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
David Brainerd
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Martin Buber
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Daniel J. Boorstin
I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.
Robert Casey
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
Gordon Brown
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Hakeem Olajuwon
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert Greene
I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.
Vincent Frank
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Angelina Grimke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Italo Calvino
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
Gary North
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Robert Bork
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
Antoine Rivarol
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Sheryl Crow
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de Sade
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony de Mello
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