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Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank. -- Muhammad Yunus
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. -- Plato
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. -- John Perry Barlow
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills. -- Ramana Maharshi
The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. -- David A. Bednar
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. -- Alfred Marshall
The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound. -- David A. Bednar
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. -- Orson Pratt
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion. -- Adoniram Judson
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. -- Jonathan Mayhew
We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants. -- Adoniram Judson
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. -- Charlie Sheen
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience. -- Jakob Bohme
I don't think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi's take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a 'chappal' or a 'sherwani.' My comedy is about small things, and that is how it connects. -- Vir Das
When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism. -- Adoniram Judson
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance. -- Anne Hutchinson
The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous. -- Norm Coleman
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community -- St. Thomas Aquinas
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance. -- Lord Acton
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes. -- Aeschylus
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory. -- John Bunyan
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... -- Randy Hamilton
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods. -- Roger Williams
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. -- William James
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. -- Michel de Montaigne
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have -- Orson Pratt
Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing. -- Ellen G. White
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life. -- J. G. Holland
I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA. -- Kyle Petty
The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs. -- Boyd K. Packer
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare -- Jonathan Mayhew

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