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Decree Quotes

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

"Non-Violent Resistance". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, Courier Corporation, p. 238, 2012.

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

R. C. Sproul (2013). “How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today”, p.165, David C Cook

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.588

I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.

"Muslim leaders: 'We will not allow the extremists to define us'". Interview with Daniel Burke, edition.cnn.com. June 15, 2016.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.580

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.666, Wordsworth Editions

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

"The World's Sages, Thinkers and Reformers". Book by D. M. Bennett, 1876.