Obedience Quotes

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

Through obedience learn to command.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

He who cannot obey cannot command.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Go, send, or disobey.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual