Home

Divine Command Quotes

There are 319 quotes

"I can't think of any other moral theory that better grounds objective moral values and duties than Divine command morality."
"Be a seeker of righteousness, not a seeker of Karamat, because your soul might want Karamat, but your Lord commands of you righteousness."
"Is that which is good, good because God commands it, or does God command it because it's good?"
"Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, 'Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go, that they may serve me.'"
"Everything God commands us to do and not do is about his glory and your joy."
"Wanting God to change his commands for you is the opposite of obedience."
"We have to love one another...that's what God wants us to do."
"It's about rejecting the commandments that mock God's Authority and accepting the law of the king of kings."
"One of the greatest ways to glorify God is to be content in his providence and to follow commands as they have been given to you in the context of God's providence."
"You're free from this thing, in Jesus' name."
"Let her go, let her go now, be healed now in Jesus' name."
"If God ever gives a command that feels harsh or that feels negative, then what God is doing is he's either trying to protect you or is trying to call you to something better."
"God said be holy. That's it, the Lord our God is holy."
"The heavens have commanded you to become ruler of the realm."
"What if we inherited the kingdom of God this year and went and did what God asked us to do?"
"When God said 'Stop,' the Jordan River had to obey him."
"May the angels carry out the command of God in protecting you and watching over you."
"Allah's commandment wasn't just 'don't eat from this tree,' it was 'don't go near it.'"
"Don't forget free [__]! I mean, so there was a variety that's, I mean, just those couple of references right there that you know what we was capable of."
"We don't just have that authority, it's given to us. I think that's our best bet, is prayer, commanding it."
"I think it just... simply means that if God calls it a sin you have to echo that because you're not God."
"I heard you preach that the Rahm is when they heard that divine ultimatum."
"Depend upon Allah with Jalla, by using the means."
"The lord turned to him and said go in the strength that you have and save israel out of midian's hand am i not sending you god says to gideon let's go get up i'm gonna use you."
"God does not command you to pray to be strong enough to do something He told you not to do."
"He wants to write not 'love your neighbor as yourself,' that was in Leviticus, we already got that one, he went one bigger: 'love one another as I have loved you.'"
"Once you recognize that this is the word of Allah Most High, you have to submit to it."
"If I honestly saw God and he's telling me to draw me on this image, he said that."
"Whether you love it or hate it, you still gonna have to obey God."
"Forgiveness, if I can recommend you do nothing else in this lifetime, obviously worship God and do God's will, but the biggest one in doing God's will is forgiving others."
"There is a God in heaven who has told us what we are to do."
"The chief purpose of humans in the Bible is to image and represent God."
"God's people at this time will be faithful to Him, loyal to Him, and keep His commandments."
"Return to Me in belief, in action, in speech." - God
"I'm giving you governmental authority to tell my angels what I want them to do."
"This teaches us that commandments and all prophetic guidance--including the precious truths in the proclamation on the family--are to guide us in the ways of God that we might become beings of love."
"Repent, God wants you to be sorry for being a fool, being wicked, being of the devil."
"God has but one command for us, for the universe, and that is the Perfection of absolute Harmony."
"Jesus responded in verses 10 and 11 saying for it is written he will command his angels concerning you to guard you."
"You can command these things to go in the name of Jesus Christ."
"Touch not my anointed one, and do my prophets no harm."
"Seek first the kingdom of God. That's a commandment."
"God tells me not to lie. It's contrary to his nature. How do you account for that fact?"
"If the state commands that which God forbids or forbids that which God commands, we are to obey God rather than man."
"If you add something to that message - 'Oh, and by the way, God wants us to do that' - that's been a powerful message for many civilizations down through history, for many tribes."
"When the believer is called upon to love as Christ loved, he is asked to love with a Divine love and nothing less."
"Have I not commanded you to be strong and very courageous to face anything and everything and be sufficient for all things because of Him?"
"Fear is of the enemy. The only thing we're commanded to fear is the Father."
"God never tells you to wait for anything. God says, 'March forward.'"
"All the works of Yahuwah are exceeding good, and whatsoever He commands shall be accomplished in due season."
"For me, that basic moral intuition is my knowledge of a Divine command to always respect human life and protect innocent and vulnerable human life."
"Our moral intuition is that it's wrong to kill children, not that it's wrong to kill them in the absence of a Divine command."
"The Quran is saying that the ancient Arabians when they did something that was clearly wrong, clearly immoral, they said, 'Well, this is just what we found our ancestors doing, it's part of our traditions and God commanded us to do this.'"
"For this is what the Lord has commanded us. I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the Earth."
"Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness."
"Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me."
"Eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it. So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth."
"There shall be no rain until I say."
"If God said to a black man to save your raggedy backside, and you're going to reject him because he's black, then death will pass on you."
"...my identity is a child of the Living God. God said 'be holy for I am holy'."
"Now I know of assurity that the Lord hath commanded my husband to flee Into the Wilderness."
"What is right, what is good, what honors God, what glorifies God, what God commands — that's his behavior."
"Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land."
"Thou shalt not add unto the word which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it."
"You shall be holy to me for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples."
"Sanctify yourselves and be holy for I am the Lord your God."
"When God said something, the argument is over."
"God is saying from heaven, relax, and that's an order."
"I can do anything God tells me to do. I can do it if He said do it."
"...whatsoever as were the priests described to the law of God of heaven shall require of you we had done speedily."
"Because Allah's commands are the best because Allah's commands are in line with his nature and what I mean in this context his names and attributes Allah is the source of goodness."
"It's a command from the Lord: earnestly desire to prophesy."
"Be holy as your heavenly father is holy."
"The Lord commanded Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to lift up their voices and speak the thoughts that he would put in their hearts."
"Now in light of all this, God commands that all men everywhere should repent."
"God has commanded all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness."
"Allah subhan wa ta'ala commanded the angels to prostrate to Adam, bow down to him on the ground. So the angels all obeyed."
"The liturgy matters, it's not optional. It's literally what God wants from you."
"You and I are called to love as God loves, even our enemies."
"I command the hips to be made whole in the name of Jesus Christ."
"God didn't call anybody to work seven days a week. Look at your neighbor and say, 'God didn't call you to work seven days.'"
"The divine imperative is not a suggestion or a proposal. It is a command of the Lord Jesus Christ to the church to make this gospel accessible to every human being on planet Earth."
"When God speaks, notice that God doesn't care what you are seeing. He tells you what you will do and you will do it."
"Increase, multiply, and fill the whole Earth." This was the law given to the human race.
"God instructs Elijah to return. He has to leave Sinai; he has to return to the people."
"God wants us to love everybody, not just the people that are like us."
"The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed."
"The nearer of man comes in any work that God commands him to the doing of it according to his will, so much the more hard and difficult it is."
"The last thing God said to a seed when he created seeds way back in the Book of Genesis was 'grow.'"
"Allah called out to all the people: 'O people, worship Allah alone!'"
"...when you have brought the people out of Egypt you shall serve God on this mountain."
"There's no absolutes in morality until the Creator establishes them."
"What matters is what God said in the Bible."
"The most magical words in all the world have been these letters: 'Worship God.'"
"God is in the business of telling people to go."
"Whoever obeys Allah and His messenger achieves the prevalent success."
"God never asked you to kill your own son."
"Sin is lawlessness. That word doesn't mean law of Moses-lessness; it means you're without, you're not following what God's telling you to do."
"See that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I put in your hand."
"The people of God are authorized and commanded to pray for mercy."
"God said go there and stand in the middle of that city and tell them and call them into repentance."
"...we have to realize, you know what, what I was taught that ain't it. I got to do what God Said."
"I am Thoth, the eldest, the son of Re, whom Atum, father of the gods, commanded to heal Horus for his mother Isis."
"And God said let light come into being, and light came into being."
"He said, 'Light be,' and light was."
"If we want to love God completely, we have to love others and share his love with others."
"If God says it, you must move on it."
"The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"And God said, let there be light."
"God's not gonna hold me accountable for what I've done, he's gonna hold me accountable for how much I did of what he asked me to do."
"Come out from among them and be ye separate, says the Lord of hosts."
"When God tells us to do something, these aren't options he offers us, they're commands he gives us."
"If what you're going to do is causing you to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, you're headed in the right direction."
"Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people," declares the Lord GOD.
"And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light."
"And God blessed them or empowered them to be fruitful, to multiply, to replenish, and to subdue the Earth."
"O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord."
"I am El Shaddai; walk before me, and be perfect."
"Then you will prosper if you're careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel."
"It simply calls those things that do not exist as if they do exist, and those things obey by existing."
"God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean."
"God commands that all people everywhere should repent."
"If God is the one that instructs me to fight, I will continue to fight you to the end."
"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord."
"But concerning love of the brethren, you have no need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another."
"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God."
"That which God had made me do, had commanded, or shall command, I will not fail to do for any man alive."
"We do what God has commanded us to do and we accept the consequences."
"Moses did look upon all the work, and behold they had done it as the Lord had commanded."
"When God commands you, He authorizes you, and when He authorizes you, He supplies."
"We obey God; God's command is what guides us."
"I want the friends to love all humanity the way God loves all humanity."
"For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy."
"The times of ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men everywhere to repent."
"What does the Lord require of thee but to love mercy, do justice, and walk humbly before the Lord thy God."
"Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.'"
"If God says 'whosoever will,' then I got to believe that, because the only issue is what did God say."
"The first word in the Quran when it was being revealed was 'read'."
"Every person here is commanded by God to be the Good Samaritan."
"This was the place chosen by David, by command of God."
"Receive ye the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."
"You that have commanded the air by your nod, and have seen those things which are to be as those things which you are doing."
"For there the Lord commands a blessing, life forever more."
"We have to logically and rationally establish that it is indeed God that has said about the nature of these things and once we establish that using our faculties of reason and understanding, then it seems reasonable and fair and just."
"If you will fear the Lord and serve Him and listen to His voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God."
"Stop stressing, it's a command from God."
"For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."
"God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.'"
"When God said let there be light, the next thing it says is, and there was light."
"Cheerful obedience, cheerfully doing what the Lord tells you to do."
"The Lord wants you to subdue your enemy."
"God has commanded me to be blessed. I'm the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath."
"The news is the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
"You may be a holy people to the Lord, your God, just as He has spoken."
"It's just challenging you to love people the way God loves people."
"Remember now, God had always said don't make alliances. I am your protector."
"You shall be holy unto me; for I the Lord am holy."
"These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
"May grace now be given to you to bring you to yield to this glorious command."
"Go in this your might; have I not commanded you?"
"From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity, there has gone forth the supreme mandate: 'Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.'"
"God's command causes reality; whenever He speaks, it happens."
"God's people must be holy in all areas of life why because God is holy."
"His voice commands the tempest forth, and stills the stormy wave."
"Allah commands Justice and Excellence."
"If God said X, then the truth value of X is true."
"None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God and to minister unto him forever."
"He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."
"And I, God, said let there be light; and there was light."
"I don't desire the death of a dead person, says Hashem Elohim. Do chuhwa, return yourselves, and you'll live."
"Isn't that why God gave us the command of the New Covenant to save us and make us live?"
"There are times that He's on the boat with us and simply commands, 'Peace, be still.'"
"Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral."
"Behold, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it."
"God, from whom all blessings come, asked of His children only that they should love each other and choose Him, their Father."
"God overlooks your times of ignorance, but he commands everyone to repent today and take it seriously."
"Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it."
"We've been called by God to be the initiators to love our wives as Christ loved the church."
"We are done; we got to wake up to say it's so important that we know that God said to love one another and to connect with each other."
"And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine."
"He never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to his people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which he has designed."
"When God speaks, we must embrace it by faith and act on it."
"When God commands something, it is accurate and it is true."
"This is the work of God: believe in him whom he has sent."
"You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today."
"God wanted Moses to speak to it, so that's an interesting thing."
"Read in the name of your Lord who did create."
"The Lord said to Moses, 'Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction."
"God says bring it up under this anointing."
"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; you shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me."
"For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!"
"God will enable me to do anything that he commands me to do."
"God is in command of all things, be it a raging hurricane or even a gentle breeze."
"You take your authority and like Jesus said in Mark chapter 11 verse 23, you speak to the sickness, to the pain, to the problem, and command it to get out of your life."
"We have to read in the name of God, and it's all about knowledge."
"Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at His command they were created."
"Be ye holy, for I am Holy; that will never change."
"It commands us; it's really critical."
"I did not tell them except that which You commanded me to: that you should worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord."