1.
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
Al-Ghazali
You must persuade your soul that whatever Allah has ordained is most suitable and most advantageous for you.
2.
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
D. H. Lawrence
3.
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
Mahatma Gandhi
4.
Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.
Jonathan Edwards
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O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
Salman al-Ouda
8.
To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
R. C. Sproul
9.
I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.
Hamza Yusuf
10.
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
Edmund Burke
11.
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
Harold H. Greene
12.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
13.
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
Fritz Sauckel
14.
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
John Tillotson
15.
You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.
Shere Hite
16.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Abraham Lincoln
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
William James
19.
We`re looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we`re looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree.
Catherine E. Pugh
21.
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
Al Sharpton
22.
Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author
J. Oliver Buswell
23.
More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
Jim Beaver
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
Boyle Roche