“Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Happiness meant recognizing that God had created us to flourish in the context of obedience to Him. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after. — R. Lee Ermey Copy Share Image
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence stays in safe harbor. Obedience always leaves self behind and sails out in faith…Waves present opportunity! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“There’s no substitute for daily fellowship with the Lord in his Word and in prayer, and then walking with him in obedience.” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“According to nature, then—that is, according to creation, so to speak—we are all sons of God, because we have all been created… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“There is a biblical benchmark I now use. We will refer to this criterion for every hard question, big idea, topic, assessment… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“...I do not believe that the law of God permits a better man to be harmed by a worse. No doubt my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I gave, at first, attention close; Then interest warm ensued; From interest, as improvement rose, Succeeded gratitude. 'Obedience was no effort soon,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Jesus the Christ delighted in the fear of the LORD, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
“Since God, therefore, gave [to man] such mental power (magnanimitatem) man knew both the good of obedience and the evil of disobedience,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous 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 ability to hear what God is saying, to see what God is doing, and to move in the realm of the… — John Wimber 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
Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands. — Max Anders 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
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will. — Elizabeth George 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
![“Since God, therefore, gave [to man] such mental power (magnanimitatem) man knew both the good of obedience and the evil of disobedience, that the eye of the mind, receiving experience of both, may with judgment make choice of the better things; and that he may never become indolent or neglectful…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/the-church-fathers-1438_better-things_since-god-therefore-gave-to-man-such-men_1003632.jpg)
