When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Childrens passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform," said the king. "Accepted authority rests first of all… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“You can force compliance with your directions, you can require obedience, but you can’t mandate enthusiasm, creativity, fresh thinking, or inspiration. If… — Roger Nierenberg Copy Share Image
“God structures his authority based on how he operates internally—that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental. — Ge Hong Copy Share Image
“When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken… — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“If we truly recognize who we are in him, we will not be negotiating the extent of our obedience to him!” — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
“It is a simply matter of obedience. If He is our Lord, then we will obey Him. If we do not obey… — Nik Ripken Copy Share Image
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Mediate on the word of God day and night, then be careful to write the sacred words on your heart. And find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as… — William Law Copy Share Image
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit… — Saadi Copy Share Image
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself...if we realize that moment-by-moment obedience is the goal, then each moment as… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
