Commandments Quotes

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40

You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- Helen Keller

In this outward and physical ceremony,
we attest once again to the inner
and spiritual strength of our Nation.
As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say:
"We must adjust to changing times,
and still hold to unchanging principles."
- Jimmy Carter

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie