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.
Jonathan Edwards (1811). “The Works of President Edwards;: Five sermons on different occasions. Miscellaneous observations on important theological controversies. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God”, p.384
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
Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.588
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 44, 1799.
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
John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.580
William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.666, Wordsworth Editions
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.