Steve Rushin Quotes

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

[Even] The Pope can't repeal the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments].

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Moses is our true founding father.

Even God Almighty has only ten.

God handed his word to Moses. He didn't need the Tennessee General Assembly's help.

Thousands of years ago there were people who complained that Moses had only 10 commandments instead of 12.

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.