The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a 'supportive institution' and our clergy as members of a 'helping profession'. The church has its own reason for being, hid within its own mandate and not found in the world. We are not chartered by the Emperor.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad.

— Mawde Royden

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

— Douglas B. Reeves

I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejecting towards those who are gay.

— James C. Dobson

You have received a mandate not given by man, but given and empowered by God, to bring justice to the people and godliness on the earth.

— Sunday Adelaja

To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate.

— Sunday Adelaja

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

— B. Margoliouth

The principle of giving should become a mandate for action for the Christians of the last days.

— Sunday Adelaja

Our main mandate in our place of work is to make sure that the people open up their hearts to others.

— Sunday Adelaja

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, 'Let there be no compulsion in religion' (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history.

— Huston Smith