Obedience Quotes

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.