If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are… — John Owen Copy Share Image
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Genuine believers are characterized by a deep love for Christ, and that love inevitably manifests itself in obedience. By contrast, those who… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Let's say that you want to do everything out of the joy that comes from knowing the Lord. Well, a lot of… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack… — Tara Leigh Cobble Copy Share Image
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth,… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
