Obedience Quotes

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.