Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale.

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

— John Milton

Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and…

— John of Kronstadt

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of one's imagination,…

— The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

— Boyd K. Packer

“Women who join together with each other to deny the male god who cursed their sex and to reject his demands for obedience, praise,…

— Trista Hendren

“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

— Margaret Atwood

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

— George Washington

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation,…

— William Barclay

“God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of…

— Ross Paterson

Today the meaning of the word believe has been weakened. In the eyes of most it has become a mere acknowledgment of a certain…

— John Bevere

If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't…

— Kay Arthur

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by…

— Matthew Henry