“Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.” — Thérèse de Lisieux Copy Share Image
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire... — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King,… — Alisa Hope Wagner Copy Share Image
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See') "The phrase that gave us focus was 'a long obedience in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
