Sentence examples for commands to us from inspiring English sources

On their view, moral principles are the expression of God's will — they are His commands to us — and they get their authority from their source.

There is even a sense in which one can find a kind of natural law theory in Ockham's ethics; one way in which God conveys his divine commands to us is by giving us the natures we have.[47] Unlike Augustine, Ockham accepted the possibility of the "virtuous pagan"; moral virtue for Ockham does not depend on having access to revelation.

(You can also give a command to "us" which would mean "Let's... ...... or "Let's not... ......) Use formal commands when you are speaking to a person or people you address as Ud. or Uds.

His idea was that we have within us this separate capacity to recognize divine command and to be drawn towards it out of a sense of dependence on the God who prescribes the command to us, and will punish us if we disobey (though our motive should not be to avoid punishment) (Ibid., §135).

Its attention to visual nuance commands us to stare, to think, to imagine and, ultimately, to feel.

Authentically Islamic traditions and much of the Quran commands us to use reason.

"The suspect had a gun, had been threatening others with the weapon, and had not obeyed our command to show us his hands," Loehmann said in his statement.

"The suspect had a gun, had been threatening others with the weapon and had not obeyed our command to show us his hands," Loehmann said, according to a written statement that was read to the Cuyahoga County grand jury.

"We could even hear their radio transmissions on the FM band, with the ground command referring to us in a vulgar fashion".

It commands us to look to ourselves and at others before we start casting stones.

You should have known that a simple request on an emailed invitation would be weak ammunition against the deeply-embedded social etiquette that commands us to bring wrapped presents to a birthday party, not to mention a first one.