Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience. — Bob Sorge Copy Share Image
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“So when we say to ourselves, or to others, 'You should obey God,' what we mean is 'We want what God deserves… — Andrew T. Walker Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto… — Guillermo Gomez-Pena Copy Share Image
Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“For years I thought of the law only as a bunch of rules and principles by which I could earn God’s favor… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“The Limit of this obligation to obedience [to the civil government] will be found only when we are commanded to do something… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
![“This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is…” quote by Quentin L. Cook](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/266/quentin-l-cook-12472_accountability_this-feeling-of-accountability-which-is_2615579.jpg)
![“God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey the behests (ad utendum sententia) of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of God. For there is no coercion with God, but a good will [towards us] is present with Him continually. And…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/637/the-church-fathers-1438_power-of-choice_god-made-man-a-free-agent-from-the-begin_1180732.jpg)
![“The Limit of this obligation to obedience [to the civil government] will be found only when we are commanded to do something contrary to the to the superior authority of God (Acts iv. 19; v. 29); or when the civil government has become so radically and incurably corrupt that it has ceased to…” quote by A.A. Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/26c/a-a-hodge-79801_politics_the-limit-of-this-obligation-to-obedienc_2170575.jpg)
