Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind"… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions… — William Carey Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
“The right use of the exercise of the will is a condition of salvation, necessary without a doubt, but remote, inferior, very… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“The wonderment found in the act of obedience is in the transformation power it holds. We become new creations the minute we… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
“The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
“We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning… — Wheel of Time #10 Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight Copy Share Image
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion. — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
