God Commands

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:

    “When almost all was out, God made a stay,
    Perceiving that alone of all His treasure
    Rest in the bottom lay.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “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)