Obedience Quotes

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

— Susan B. Anthony

“Delayed obedience is really disobedience.”

— Brent Weeks

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

— George MacDonald

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Obedience is a part of greatness.

— Mark E. Petersen

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”

— Timothy Snyder

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

— John Dod

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

— Pierre Corneille

No matter how radical it seems, God is looking for obedience.

— Pastor Darryl L Godlock

“Great move of God require great obedience to the ways of the Spirit.”

— Benjamin Suulola

“The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.

— Priscilla Shirer

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

— Naomi Alderman

“Faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power…

— Joyce Meyer

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

— George Muller

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going…

— Alex Steffen

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of…

— Jerry Bridges

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

— Billy Graham

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

— Ray Lewis

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

“But he who knows not when to obey shall find that he's really obeying his rebellious lower aspects. His animal nature, if…

— Dean F. Wilson

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the “right” way to worship, to obey, and to…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“want your obedience. I expect it—no, I demand it. I don’t relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So…

— Maya Banks

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same…

— Josh Garrels

Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some…

— Henry David Thoreau

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between…

— Ernest Renan

A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.…

— J. C. Ryle

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed…

— Howard Zinn

“OBEDIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his…

— George Orwell

“Obedience makes our heart receptive to what God has already done. It doesn’t move Him; His heart is always aflame toward us.…

— Brian Williams

When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him…

— Lou Engle

“We could paraphrase "repent and believe" with "close your ears and listen." Obedience has both a stop and start to it. We…

— Adam S. McHugh