Quotes about Command
O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror... And nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
— Walt Whitman
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
— Charles Swindoll
So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.
— Dallas Willard
Or rather that crisp command fell upon the current of his thought like a dry leaf on the surface of a deeply flowing stream, to be borne forty years away.
— Wendell Berry
Here we sit. Sinners bound together by the impossible command to love our enemies.
— Janette Oke
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
— Vince Lombardi
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
— Vernon Howard
Did you realize that one of the few commands given to mankind through Adam was "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:286)? If man had intense disobedience to God (e.g., Genesis 6:5,7 6:128) 120 years prior to the Flood (Genesis 6:39), are we to believe they were still being obedient to God's command here? Likely not!
— Ken Ham
Giving is the most powerful tool God has at His command. It is His cardinal law.
— Kenneth Copeland
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!
— Charles Swindoll
God commands a wife to respect her husband. This word means to hold in high esteem, to lift up. It's closely connected with the word "reverence." Ladies, what your husband needs and craves from you more than anything else is respect. While you love to hear, "I love you," we men want and need to hear, "I respect you.
— Tony Evans