God Commands

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:

    I close my eyes over the steaming
    tea and see God opening His teeth.
    “Oh,” He says.
    I see the child in me writing, “Oh.”
    Oh, my dear, not why.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    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)