Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
“By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination. — Paul Ricoeur 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
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe,… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
“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
Wherever there is a desire to have power over another person, it is politics. Power is always political, even on small children.… — Osho 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
“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
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
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
“The Limit of this obligation to obedience [to the civil government] will be found only when we are commanded to do something… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“For years I thought of the law only as a bunch of rules and principles by which I could earn God’s favor… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“{ The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll 's funeral, quoted here } Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
![“The Limit of this obligation to obedience [to the civil government] will be found only when we are commanded to do something contrary to the to the superior authority of God (Acts iv. 19; v. 29); or when the civil government has become so radically and incurably corrupt that it has ceased to…” quote by A.A. Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/a-a-hodge-79801_politics_the-limit-of-this-obligation-to-obedienc_2170575.jpg)
![“God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey the behests (ad utendum sententia) of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of God. For there is no coercion with God, but a good will [towards us] is present with Him continually. And…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/the-church-fathers-1438_power-of-choice_god-made-man-a-free-agent-from-the-begin_1180732.jpg)
