Best Commandments Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.”

“Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.”

“Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?”

“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”

“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.”

“Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.”

“If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.”

“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.”

“Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.”

“Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.”

“The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.”

“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”

“Any fool who contends he has a natural right of supremacy over his neighbors violates not only the foundational creed of America, but the greatest commandments of the God who created him.”

“The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.”

“There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.”

“Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.”

“The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.”

“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

“I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.”

“What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.”

“If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.”

“Not only did we read a lot at home, we also watched a lot of films. So I had already seen a lot of films that were about the crucifixion and the temptation of Christ, like Bible history and the Ten Commandments - stuff like that.”

“I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.”

“The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.”

“I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more.”

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.”

“I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.”

“People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.”

“If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.”

“I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.”

“We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.”

“One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)”

“Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.”

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”

“We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments, promises and penalties are much more so. The Bible is not just a guideline. It is the authoritative Word of God. Disobeying it has consequences. Obeying it has rewards. Yet we fudge. We compromise. We rationalize. We trade away our spiritual integrity for man’s approval and as we do, we gradually erode our ability to distinguish right from wrong, to see our own failings, and to turn back in repentance to God. We simply have no idea how this cavalier attitude towards God’s Word taints our witness and hinders the kingdom of God.”

“Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.”