True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience. — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
“Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“The good Lord provides opportunity, but He won’t hand you what you want on a silver platter. He expects you to work… — Lynnette Bonner Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Because God has accredited or imputed Jesus' perfect obedience to you, when God looks upon you, he sees you as a person… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“This easy obedience to tyrants, which often verged on devotion, always surprised him. He had come to believe that the majority of… — Albert Cossery Copy Share Image
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“God not only works obedience in us by his grace, it’s also by his grace that our imperfect obedience is acceptable in… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“The authoriyty of God's Word ... is (known) in the way of the Spirit, who leads man to obedience and draws him… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you. — Jim George Copy Share Image
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth. — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
