The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“we can use marriage for the same purpose—to grow in our service, obedience, character, pursuit, and love of God.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“Faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“For years I thought of the law only as a bunch of rules and principles by which I could earn God’s favor… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“The Limit of this obligation to obedience [to the civil government] will be found only when we are commanded to do something… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Obedience to God is the answer to straightening out any problem you will ever have. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
One of the most important aspects of our Christian life is obedience, which reveals our love for God. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
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