Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is when we are at our darkest hour, when we can see no evidence that God loves us or that he… — Tom King Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are… — Kelly Bartlett Copy Share Image
“I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Obedience is another kind of shortcut, in which we trust someone else’s thinking above our own. It’s easy and simple, especially when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Today the meaning of the word believe has been weakened. In the eyes of most it has become a mere acknowledgment of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through… — Jim George Copy Share Image
“But our opportunities to bless our children are often most present when we least feel like it. This is why we cannot… — Rachel Jankovic Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into… — John Strachan 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
Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however,… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord.… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully.… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“But I believe also the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always a sense of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of… — Matthew Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
