Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:
“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish—to deny him, or define him.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“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)