“When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we’re stamping out the artist that lives within.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God’s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“those who talk about teaching their fellow human beings obedience like they’d speak of training a dog. It” — Nat Kozinn Copy Share Image
We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
“Genuine believers are characterized by a deep love for Christ, and that love inevitably manifests itself in obedience. By contrast, those who… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist… — William Carey Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We could paraphrase "repent and believe" with "close your ears and listen." Obedience has both a stop and start to it. We… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out… — ross paterson Copy Share Image
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc.,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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