“Discipline was necessary, but unquestioning obedience was a limiting thing, not a growing one.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I could not comprehend God's plan but my understanding was not essential. My obedience was.” — Alice Gray Copy Share Image
Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are. — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey” — Donovan M. Neal Copy Share Image
“It’s true that God wants us to grow in our knowledge and obedience of him, but he never wants us to stop… — Caleb Breakey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience… — Quentin L. Cook 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
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
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
Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the… — David Wright Copy Share Image
Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
“The essence of the final crisis is no mere ritualistic observance, but absolute loyalty to the Christ of Calvary. Eden’s test seemed… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Theology that defines virtue as obedience to God suppresses the virtue of revolt. A woman being battered by her husband will be… — Rebecca Ann Parker Copy Share Image
“The Christian life begins not with high deeds and achievements but with the most simple and ordinary act of humble asking. Then… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.” — Jim George Copy Share Image