Sentence examples for command us to from inspiring English sources
"The Word does not command us to renounce property but to manage property without inordinate affection" (Eclogae Propheticae).
Genuine civic pride comes from within; it is not something that others can command us to display.
Not all soldiers were the same, but some would command us to stand there for half-an-hour before they took the attendance register and almost two hours afterwards.
"Does impartiality command us to criticize the talents and literary productions of a few negroes who have escaped the unhappy lot of their brethren; and because they fall far short of European excellence, to degrade their whole race below the rest of mankind?" Moore then skewers Jefferson for his Francophilia, and perhaps his rumored affair with Sally Hemings, in a single thrust.
Their website says the Old and New Testaments "clearly command us to abstain from blood".
Should God command us to hate him, then this is what we ought to do.
(English translation) "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with Thy Commandments, and commanded us to affix the Mezuzah".
Blessed are You, O Lord Our God, Ruler of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with Your commandments and commanded us to kindle the lights of Hanukkah.
What she concludes is that there is no real "human right" under God's commandment because if God commands us to renounce human rights, then that is required.
These standards that we learn from reason apply also to God, so that we can use them to judge what God is and is not commanding us to do.
