God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. — Hosea Ballou 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
“Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey” — Donovan M. Neal Copy Share Image
Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Is obedience what your church is known for? Is it what other Christians think of when they look at your life? Is… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In many ways, the attitude of obedience is much more vital than the act, because if the attitude is right, the act… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“Your directions, your judgment, your disposition to rebel must be subjected and reduced to ashes. How? In the fire of obedience, for… — Michael Molinos Copy Share Image
“Obedience to a law which cannot be resisted is not the service of the heart—not the highest tribute to the Creator's glory.… — Margaret Gatty Copy Share Image
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
How often have I been guilty of being the Holy Spirit in their lives? It is my job along with my husbands… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. — William Penn Copy Share Image
