Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“But he who knows not when to obey shall find that he's really obeying his rebellious lower aspects. His animal nature, if… — Dean F. Wilson 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
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way. — Doug McIntosh Copy Share Image
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father. — Lloyd Geering Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
