Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
You dont learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response,… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
“But our opportunities to bless our children are often most present when we least feel like it. This is why we cannot… — Rachel Jankovic Copy Share Image
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Because God has accredited or imputed Jesus' perfect obedience to you, when God looks upon you, he sees you as a person… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick 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
“our actions often belie our “emotions.” The true emotions of our hearts are the ones that inform lordship. We will obey the… — Zach Neese Copy Share Image
“As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with… — Daniel Waterman 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
