Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide. — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification. — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
“God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up… — Colin S. Smith 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
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris 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
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
