Restricted Divine Command

Famous quotes containing the words restricted, divine and/or command:

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)