“You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“God not only works obedience in us by his grace, it’s also by his grace that our imperfect obedience is acceptable in… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The best way to positive change is reading the Bible, there is no other way to eternal bliss than concrete obedience to… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we… — Kevin DeYoung 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
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll… — Emma Jane Holloway Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.'… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Obedience is love, fulfilling every command, love expressing itself. Obedience, therefore, is not a hard demand made upon us, any more than… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
“Listen, Stavrogin: to level the mountains is a good idea, not a ridiculous one. I'm for Shigalyov! No need for education, enough… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There are good qualities in every soul. We seldom meet any one who is wholly determined to do wrong, though there are… — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
