Obedience Quotes

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

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

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

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

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.