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How to use the word Commandment in a Sentence?

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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

P. J. O'Rourke

added by Normando
2 years ago

This is like the Biden-Harris commandment that everybody regardless of state or rural, suburban, urban, regardless of setting has to wear a mask when in public.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our society's splintering. We are in the middle of a pandemic with 100,000 dead, president Trump identifies himself as a Christian and avid reader of the Bible. And I just call him and all of our hurting communities to remember the great commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.

Susan Gunn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

President Trump identifies himself as a Christian and avid reader of the Bible. And I just call him and all of our hurting communities to remember the great commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.

Susan Gunn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

James R. Cook

added by anonymous
5 years ago

For somebody quoting the Bible, as much as she’s quoting the Bible, that’s just why I hope that she’s just completely ignorant, and is n’t lying on purpose to the American people that many times, Mika Brzezinski, that would be terrible, there’s a commandment against the lying.

Joe Scarborough

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There’s a commandment against the lying.

Joe Scarborough

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' has absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is very important to me. I am a person of faith. I am Christian. I am a Methodist, my study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe that the most important commandment is to love the lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe in Reagan's 11th commandment: I won't speak ill of anybody, ted Cruz is a friend of mine; he's a senator. Ted Cruz is healthy for this party, just as every other Republican is healthy for this party. And I want more people to be part of the Republican party.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They responded with extraordinary creativity to the commandment of love of God and neighbor.

Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Jesus Christ

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is absolutely impossible to be a rich Christian " Because he does not follow Jesus.Jesus answered, Mark 12:30 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Sunny Mathew Cheruthanniyil

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I am leaving no sermon, no dogma, nor am I leaving as my legacy any commandment that is frozen in time or cast in stone,” he said shortly before his death. 'Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Berta Buxton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.

Psalms 11996

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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