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«This life is but a tillage for the next, do good that you may reap there; for striving is the ordinance of God and whatever God hath ordained can only be attained by striving»
«Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining; but when you are secure (from danger) keep up prayer; surely prayer is a timed ordinance for the believers. (The Women 4.103)»
«Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? / Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? / And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.»
«Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.»
«The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.»
«Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; / Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.»
«Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.»
«Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.»
«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.»