Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
“Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek… — Dan Baumann Copy Share Image
“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of… — The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The heart is the most arrogant and egoistic part of the body, it does not listen to the views of mind, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave...… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Mediate on the word of God day and night, then be careful to write the sacred words on your heart. And find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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