Decrees Quotes

Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it, Be, so there it is. - Quran

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. - Bible

While the media's elite decrees what to think. I am wide awake on the edge and on the brink. - Otep

Whether these decrees were signed by the president and absolutely contradictory or not, either way it shows the advanced decrepitude of the management of the affairs of state in Guinea. - Mike McGovern

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics. - Li Hongzhi

Very stange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. - Phillips Brooks

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. - Peter Ustinov

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. - Chauncey Wright

The decision of PLC speaker includes only appointments and promotions and not related to the approval of presidential decrees. - Khaled Suleiman

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