Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“We may be content to remain what we call 'ordinary people': but He is determined to carry out a quite different plan.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed… — Kelly Minter Copy Share Image
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this,… — George Orwell 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
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI 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
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — Simone Weil 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
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“At our wedding, the Dwarves gave me away, and I saw in their eyes that gleam of pride and hurt, and I… — Kathryn Wesley Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Obedience through fear is reluctant and resentful. Obedience through gratitude is joyful, instant, and spontaneous. Gratitude is like an overflowing stream, positive,… — Daw Nyein Tha Copy Share Image
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your… — Bob Jones, Sr Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
![“What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self…” quote by Georg Brandes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b9d/georg-brandes-10610_baseness_what-nietzsche-calls-slave-morality-is-t_2767791.jpg)
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