Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:
“So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe,
I saye this, that they been maad for bothe—
That is to sayn, for office and for ese
Of engendrure, ther we nat God displese.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“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)