Obedience Quotes

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Heartfelt and willing obedience invites the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way.

obedience is a great danger.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

Obedience is a part of greatness.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.