Quotes about Orders
Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.
- Mark 5:43
But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
- John 11:57
“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
- Acts 5:28
And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
- Acts 8:38
The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”
- Acts 16:36
So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.
- Acts 23:31
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
- Thomas Becket
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.
- George Weigel
"King David commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, 'Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.' And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders."
- 2 Samuel 18:5
We must obey God rather than orders from men. Jehovah has raised Jesus from the dead and declared him the Messiah, to bring Israel to repentance. We are witnesses of all this, as is the Holy Spirit, the one God has given to those who obey.
- Janette Oke
TV critics came after me for overhyping LeBron. A lot of people don't know this, but I didn't want to do the game. I told ESPN, 'We're making this kid into something special.' I always follow orders, whatever my people want me to do.
- Dick Vitale