You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?
People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
