1.
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
Jim Elliot
'Trust in this - it is His prerogative to guide, direct, urge, summon... It is yours to comply, heed, act upon, answer.'
2.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
John Vianney
God exhorts you to supplicate, yet forbids you to anguish.
4.
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
Martin Buber
5.
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
Sappho
6.
He who commands the sea has command of everything.
Themistocles
7.
Keep cool and you will command everyone.
Justinian I
8.
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
Stella Gibbons
9.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Simone Weil
11.
God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
Henry Blackaby
12.
No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!
Thomas Gage
13.
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
Thomas F. Wilson
14.
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
Hasan of Basra
17.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Denis Diderot
18.
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
David Platt
20.
Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way.
Keith Green
21.
When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
Henrietta Mears
23.
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
Martin Luther
25.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
John Locke
27.
God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
Myles Munroe
28.
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
Walter Russell
30.
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
31.
You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
Rhonda Byrne
32.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
Henry Fuseli
33.
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
Elisabeth Elliot
34.
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.
Matt Haig
35.
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
Philip Sidney
37.
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
Thomas Aquinas
38.
There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
Mike Dirnt
40.
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
Wang Jianlin
41.
If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.
George Q. Cannon
42.
The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
Arnaud Desjardins
43.
I can no longer obey;
I have tasted command,
and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
44.
The strongest leaders do not command, they empower
Ralph Marston
45.
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
Barbara Tuchman
47.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
Aristotle
49.
Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.
Swami Vivekananda
50.
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.
Marion G. Romney