Courtney Love Quotes

Even God Almighty has only ten.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

His face was filled with broken commandments.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

[Even] The Pope can't repeal the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments].

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

So many laws argues so many sins.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.