“Faith is possible only in this new state of existence created by obedience.” — Rodney Combs Copy Share Image
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.” — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc.,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The Mormon teaching of unquestioning obedience to authority, added to the strict military law then in force in the Territory, would, in… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“(re: Matthew 7:21 - "Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master', for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is a wonderful way to disarm it.” — Rachel Jankovic Copy Share Image
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed. — Elaine A. Cannon Copy Share Image
Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
