The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To submit to anyone less than Christ is difficult in a marriage. Yet it is Christ who commands women to be submissive… — R C Sproul Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“move from an earthly mindset that makes us bristle at the thought of submission to a joyful expectation of good, we must… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“With a doctrine-centered discipleship program, one must teach everything to ensure a person has the knowledge to be obedient. With an obedience-centered… — David Watson Copy Share Image
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to… — Erich Raeder Copy Share Image
The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership demonstrates), “Obedience is the opener… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We had for so long accepted her obedience to our will that when it ceased to be given naturally, it came as… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“When we submit to God, when we call upon His Name and give Him the glory as we trust Him, we can… — Paddick Van Zyl Copy Share Image
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be lighthearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is striking how seldom Paul uses eschatological judgment as a threat to motivate obedience. More characteristically, he points to the sanctifying… — Richard Hays Copy Share Image
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Without reservation I promise you that if each of you will observe this simple program, regardless of how many times you previously… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
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