If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“According to nature, then—that is, according to creation, so to speak—we are all sons of God, because we have all been created… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
“The church belongs to Jesus—and its growth and health depend fully upon His power and our obedience to Him.” — Paul Chappell Copy Share Image
“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.” — George Hammond Copy Share Image
Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!! — Floyd McClung Copy Share Image
Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“An angle of worship is birthed through our surrender to obedience. One of the ways we love and worship God is by… — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
