Quotes about Divine commands

In justification, the word to be addressed to us is "believe" — only believe; in sanctification, we must "watch, pray, and fight." What God has divided, let us not mingle and confuse.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Satan's efforts to defeat God's purposes for humankind. This is the basic idea behind all temptation: God is presented as depriving us by his commands of what is good.

This is love: that we walk according to His commands. 2 John 6

Every law that God has given has been for man's benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.

But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.