The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“They proved their love for God, not with words or with songs of worship, but with pure, undefiled obedience.” — Marian Jordan Ellis Copy Share Image
“When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We might be afraid of what will happen to us if we choose to obey God immediately. But being obedient to His… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll… — Emma Jane Holloway Copy Share Image
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.'… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has… — Walter Chantry Copy Share Image
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The best way to positive change is reading the Bible, there is no other way to eternal bliss than concrete obedience to… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence stays in safe harbor. Obedience always leaves self behind and sails out in faith…Waves present opportunity! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There’s no substitute for daily fellowship with the Lord in his Word and in prayer, and then walking with him in obedience.” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen Copy Share Image
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“I started to get it. The Christian life wasn’t about running like a maniac; it was about walking with God. It wasn’t… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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