Obedience Quotes

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

God’s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.