Top 55 Commands Quotes

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Border collies were trained in Scotland. They have the Scots’ commands in their genes. At the dog trials, the owners wear those three-piece western suits, cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats, but they carry Scots shepherd’s crooks over their arms and talk to their dogs in Scots accents.

Unconventional warfare needs to remain the heart and soul of U.S. Special Operations Command and component commands.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you’re just thinking out loud.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Young people are not immune to following God’s commands concerning discipline.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn’t have a mouse and therefore you’ve got all these commands.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children – to be the spiritual leader of your family – you’re acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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.

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you’re having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

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.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.

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.

There’s so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He’s so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature, you ensure that it commands the investment and protection that other forms of capital attract.

It certainly makes a game better to have voice commands because it can alter how the game is played.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God’s commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put out for dinner. Wolves are not great at following human commands, whereas dogs are brilliant at it.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God’s commands.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it’s a lot of commands. It’s a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It’s not like, ‘how do you feel?’

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

The basic question ‘will I obey Christ ‘s teaching?’ is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus’ commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don’t know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.

I think that there was a fad where everyone said, ‘I want you to create a signature step for my artist.’ The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

The lesser jihad is our active fulfillment of Islam’s commands and duties.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

The czar was always sending us commands – you shall not do this and you shall not do that – till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.