Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
“Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out… — ross paterson Copy Share Image
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God’s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we’re stamping out the artist that lives within.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“We are drawn to Jesus because “he learned obedience from what he suffered” (Heb. 5:8). People who are growing up are also… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“Sixteen years old is a crucial time in anybody's life, whether they realize it or not, and happy is the young person… — Arnold Pent III Copy Share Image
“One day, Father Alvarez, finding himself overwhelmed with business, was anxious to get rid of it, in order to go and pray,… — Alphonsus Maria de Liguori Copy Share Image
Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See') "The phrase that gave us focus was 'a long obedience in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“But I’ve always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time. — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
“those who talk about teaching their fellow human beings obedience like they’d speak of training a dog. It” — Nat Kozinn Copy Share Image
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
“enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The gospel produces not just obedience, you see, but a new kind of obedience3—an obedience that is powered by desire. An obedience… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the… — Steve Pearce Copy Share Image
We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image