Obedience Quotes · Page 39

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to…

— Robert D. Hales

Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need…

— Georg Simmel

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience…

— Vincent de Paul

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

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars,…

— Dorothea Dix

The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the…

— Lou Priolo

Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO…

— Eric Liddell

All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself…

— Ellen G. White

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve…

— Amanda Foreman

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical…

— Arthur Koestler

If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words…

— David Jeremiah

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior,…

— Brigham Young

Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in…

— Paris Reidhead

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and…

— Bram Stoker

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

— Max Anders

There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of…

— James Martineau

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny…

— Susan B. Anthony

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along…

— Kylie Tennant

In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the…

— Alphonsus Liguori

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

— Carolyn Wheat