And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I… — Lorenzo Snow 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
The one thing He commands us as His branches is to bear fruit. Let us live to bless others, to testify of… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator,… — Various Copy Share Image
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“The following two examples bear witness to the same state of mind: a certain believer asks God for various favors not because… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Obedience had never been deemed a pure virtue among the Tiste Andii. To follow must be an act born of deliberation, of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of history there was also a garden and a command. God put Adam and Eve in that garden, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“But he who knows not when to obey shall find that he's really obeying his rebellious lower aspects. His animal nature, if… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image