Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.” — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity that restricts to only conformity, faith, devotion and obedience without practicing accountability, morality, transparency and integrity is just pure spiritual… — Michael Chuang Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that if you offer yourselves to someone † as obedient •slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“It is not as easy as you think,” she replied. “In the first place, my orders would not be carried out unless… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“He had theologically redefined the Christian life as something active, not reactive. It had nothing to do with avoiding sin or with… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“In our world today, the accent is on youth. Everyone wants to look young, feel young, and be young… Although there is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image