God Commands

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:

    I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)